agree because paying 19$ for this product is not worthy. as telegram already provides telegra.ph which is free of cost. FOSS with donations is a perfect monetisation strategy.
"Also, is there anyway to prevent website from scraping content?"
You can implement a cloudflare dns so that people(or bots) are not able to scrape your content. even you can have robot authentication checking methods like google recaptcha to prevent scraping of content.