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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

For the way modern stuff works, it does. If you want notifications that don't chew through battery life on Android or notifications at all on iOS, then it needs to go through the respective notification services.

We /could/ design ways that this wouldn't be an issue and entirely local push notifications could be a thing. But it's not how your devices work today.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Three letter agencies want to read your notifications so we have to have a centralised service