Comment on Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users
Rootiest@lemmy.world 9 months agoThat’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 9 months ago
Signal notifications work fine without GCM, and even Whatsapp does to an extent
Rootiest@lemmy.world 9 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.