Comment on Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users
That’s cool, but also doesn’t sound all that useful.
A fairly significant number of apps depends on Firebase and the like and don’t even have the option to pull notifications otherwise.
When’s the last time you’ve seen a chat app that didn’t require push notifications to function?
You can’t disable them without severely crippling the experience
Signal notifications work fine without GCM, and even Whatsapp does to an extent
That’s true, signal is pretty good about that.
I wasn’t saying Signal required them necessarily, just that even it uses them.
Rootiest@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s cool, but also doesn’t sound all that useful.
A fairly significant number of apps depends on Firebase and the like and don’t even have the option to pull notifications otherwise.
When’s the last time you’ve seen a chat app that didn’t require push notifications to function?
You can’t disable them without severely crippling the experience
uzay@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Signal notifications work fine without GCM, and even Whatsapp does to an extent
Rootiest@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s true, signal is pretty good about that.
I wasn’t saying Signal required them necessarily, just that even it uses them.