• sunzu
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    55 months ago

    To was bad decision to rely on Google… Good to see them fix it considering what we know now

      • sunzu
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        35 months ago

        Other apps didn’t rely on google for notifications

        I am not following how proton is different

        • @[email protected]
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          35 months ago

          Which apps are you referring to? Google and Apple’s services have long been the default choice for notifications on mobile devices. Other options get killed off by battery optimization processes without special setup.

            • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼OP
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              25 months ago

              Signal has their own implementation of notifications, which uses WebSockets. It works, and it doesn’t rely on Google, but it eats up battery like crazy. If every app did this, you would have a battery life of an hour. That’s why UnifiedPush is a better solution.

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                15 months ago

                Thank you for the info.

                Yeah my phone battery is destroyed by signal and browser usage pretty much lol

                • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼OP
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                  Try Molly, it’s a fork of the Signal client for Android, which improves battery life (even with WebSockets) or alternatively allows you to use UnifiedPush. Signal doesn’t support UP natively, but Molly has created a bridge called mollysocket, which takes Signal notifications and forwards them to your UnifiedPush server of choice. You can self-host it, or just use a public instance like https://adminforge.de/services/mollysocket/. They also host an instance of ntfy (UnifiedPush server) at ntfy.adminforge.de. If you have questions on how to set this up, feel free to DM me. But it’s pretty easy and you don’t need to self-host anything. And it’s perfectly secure, because although the mollysocket server is added as a linked device in Signal, it doesn’t get the encryption keys to your messages. So it can’t decrypt your messages or see the content of your notifications.

                  • sunzu
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                    15 months ago

                    can i just replace Signal with it or are there limitations?