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CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years ago

Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users

www.macrumors.com

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Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users

www.macrumors.com

CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years ago
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Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users by tracking push notifications that move through Google's and Apple's servers, a US...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/post/39255

Is self-hosted enough to avoid push notifications going through Apple and Google servers?

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

    • 𝕽𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖙@lemmy.world
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      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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