U.S. Senator Ron Wyden warned that foreign governments are spying on smartphone users by compelling Apple and Google to turn over push notification records
Apps can implement their own form of push notifications – most privacy-respecting ones already do. However, it’s an endeavor that’s too much effort for the average dev, so they default to using the existing FCM service instead.
Never had issues with Element, Fair Email, Silence notifying me? I run LineageOS without Play.
Apps can implement their own form of push notifications – most privacy-respecting ones already do. However, it’s an endeavor that’s too much effort for the average dev, so they default to using the existing FCM service instead.