TIMES OF INDIA - In a blog post Pavel Durov, product manager, CEO and founder of Telegram talks about why with Telegram users are more ad-free than with WhatsApp. WhatsApp already shares user data with advertisers even though they don't show ads themselves. While on Telegram, advertisers will never get users private data. Sponsored messages can only appear in channels, which are a unique social networking feature Telegram added several years after launch.