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Signal and Threema want nothing to do with WhatsApp (www.androidpolice.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

With Signal's default settings, Google reads your Signal messages when they come in through push notifications.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Edit: For those in doubt, last year, I started seeing content-aware auto-reply options in my Signal message notifications; that is not a function of Signal, but a function of Google's Android. One could escape it by using a de-Googled Android like Lineage or Graphene, or by hiding the message content (which is not the Signal default) and would surely hurt Signal's adoption, when you have to unlock the app to read each message.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments-spying-apple-google-users-through-push-notifications-us-senator-2023-12-06/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Or... And hear me out, Molly FOSS with Unified Push notifications. Problem solved!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm looking in to this, thank you!

Edit: Molly (UnifiedPush) isn't something I can reasonably expect friends and family to set up.

Please note that to receive notifications, you will need to set up a server to run MollySocket, available on https://github.com/mollyim/mollysocket.

You need the right flavor of Molly to use UnifiedPush: https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android-unifiedpush. You can install MollySocket via: Docker/Podman: docker pull ghcr.io/mollyim/mollysocket:latest Crates.io: cargo install mollysocket (see INSTALL.md for the setup) Direct download: https://github.com/mollyim/mollysocket/releases (see INSTALL.md for the setup) A distributor app (easiest is ntfy) You can optionally install your own push server like ntfy or NextPush. For beginners, you can use a free service like ntfy.sh (do consider donating if you have the means).

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