Comment on Ntfy.sh Protonmail notifications

• Tregetour@lemdro.id ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Context is king. If there’s vital/time-dependent correspondence you’re waiting on, notifications can matter. But email in 2024 is pretty darn transactional, in which case a daily check is enough for most. Notifications for something suggest that I need to drop what I’m doing and attend to whatever arrived. That just doesn’t apply for service provider marketing, purchase receipts, etc.

  And then the opsec angle comes into play: axios.com/…/apple-google-requests-push-notificati…

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    a daily check is enough for most

    Yeah I have to strongly disagree.

    And then the opsec angle comes into play:

    Which is why Proton’s notifications have been encrypted for years.

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