[Ristovski]

Title is a bit misleading - this is merely enforcing that developers who create third party Telegram clients include the functionality of showing ads.

[tomjen3]

If google required that third-party email clients showed their ads, would you also use the word merely?

Website owners merely requiring that browsers show their ads?

[OJFord]

What's the alternative? Anyone who uses it (the other sort of 'client') is forced to advertise on the platform, like it or not? Isn't that absurd enough to be obviously not what's happening?