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ScrambledEggs@lazysoci.al ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• belouve@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There is not and it is due to privacy implications. You can read more on their site about it and ALSO, there are fake Android apps of this that they caution you to not install. As of now, there is no Android version and unlikely unless Android fixes the way notifications work to not have any account or privacy issues for such an app.

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  • dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is not true. bsky.app/profile/grapheneos.org/…/3lt2prfb2vk2r

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    • Enkimaru@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Well, who knows what is true and what not. I never knew that Push Notifications go via Apple, and not via the network operator. Definitely wrong is GraphenOS’s claim that Android does not allow access to the device id. Of course it does. For what reason would the ID exist if it does not? No idea if you need it for a FB message/notification though.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        who knows what is true and what not.

        Lots of people do.

        Definitely wrong is GraphenOS’s claim that Android does not allow access to the device id.

        That’s not what it says.

        No idea if you need it for a FB message/notification though.

        There has to be a way for Google/Apple to know which device to send the notif to.

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    • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Which part? Are you saying they have made an android version?

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      • Zak@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The link in the comment you’re replying to says which part is not true, but since you seem more willing to comment than to click a link and read, I’ll summarize:

        The part about the Apple Push Notification service requiring less information that can identify an individual user than Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging is not true. Both use a similar token system. Furthermore, it is possible to build android apps with notifications that do not use FCM.

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      • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        No, they are saying that Android and Apple both have a privacy issue on the same level.

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  • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Incompetence is not a “privacy implication”. You think Apple servers are beyond reach of US warrants?

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• swelter_spark@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fire works on Android and is meant to do basically the same thing. I saw someone post it in another thread, but haven’t explored it in depth.

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