TG Defender: a shield for your channel

In the morning your channel had 800 subscribers. By evening it had 5,800, all new, no avatars, near-identical names and not a single reaction. That is a bot flood. Competitors, scammers or pranksters cause it, and the channel owner is left to clean up. TG Defender is built for exactly that. 🛡️

Why a bot flood hurts

Extra subscribers seem harmless. In reality they damage a channel in several ways at once.

• Stats. Reach drops as a percentage, engagement looks terrible and advertisers start to doubt you.
• Reputation. Analytics services flag channels with fake followers, and that label is hard to remove.
• Ad sales. Buyers check audiences, and a bot-filled channel loses deals.
• Platform risk. Suspicious activity can draw moderation attention even when you did nothing wrong.

What TG Defender offers

The bot runs as a mini app with a web dashboard showing what is going on in your channel. The headline feature: it needs no admin permissions, so you do not hand control of your channel to someone else's bot. 🔒

• Free for small channels. Protection costs nothing under 300 members.
• Pay with Telegram Stars. Bigger channels pay in Stars, no bank card required.
• Privacy. The developer says your data is visible only to you.
• Two languages. The interface is in English and Russian.

Getting set up

1. Open the bot and launch the mini app.
2. Add the channel you want to protect.
3. Check the dashboard: how many subscribers look like bots and when they arrived.
4. If the channel has more than 300 members, pick a plan and pay in Stars.

Pricing for bigger channels is shown inside the app. The project also has a community chat where you can ask the developer questions.

What you can do yourself right now

Even with protection, the manual tricks are worth knowing. They help when an attack is already underway. ⚙️

• Join requests. Turn on request approval for an invite link so bots cannot join automatically.
• Separate links. Create different invite links for different places. You will see where a surge comes from and can revoke that link.
• Recent actions. Admins can spot join spikes in the recent actions log.
• Cleanup. Suspicious subscribers can be removed from the member list by hand.

Who it is for

TG Defender suits channel owners who sell ads or are just starting to grow and worry that someone's bots will wreck their numbers. Channels under 300 members can try it for free.

Larger channels should see it as insurance. Catching an attack in the first hour is cheaper than spending months explaining odd stats to advertisers. 📊