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Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users (www.macrumors.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Most "standard" messaging apps (that includes signal, telegram) use the "OS provided" push service. On Android, they use firebase cloud messaging, a component of google play services.

Degoogled Android means not having any notifications, unless the app supports UnifiedPush, runs in the background 24/7 (which drains battery), or runs in the background occasionally (which delays notifications).

If the app runs in the background occasionaly, you can "burden" the people on the other side by being slow to respond.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Eh, I use a few apps that have true foss forks and thus don't use gcm but the keep-alive method, and I didn't notice a difference in battery when I made the switch.

Also lol #3 isn't exactly a "burden", take the hint and go away people. Let me live in blissful solitude.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Pretty much my experience with pull-based notifications. I've even tested the same client on the same setup against both NTFY and client-pull without seeing a noticable difference in battery usage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It also means you will be on a very short list of people who use Unified Push.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Well I'd say those going the degoogle route learn about things like Unified, NLP, etc, along the way. But it is something the end user has to handle themselves, rather than it just being there in the OS.