Comment on Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users

• Rootiest@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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  • uzay@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Signal notifications work fine without GCM, and even Whatsapp does to an extent

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    • Rootiest@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s true, signal is pretty good about that.

      I wasn’t saying Signal required them necessarily, just that even it uses them.

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