Misfit-Meower@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.caEnglish · edit-24 days agoSignal?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up12arrow-down1imageSignal?lemmy.worldMisfit-Meower@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.caEnglish · edit-24 days agomessage-square11fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareXylight@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoSignal uses AWS as a backend. It also uses firebase for push notifications by default, meaning Google can tell whenever you get a notification!
minus-squareMisfit-Meower@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoSo… should I just turn off Signal’s notifications?
minus-squareXylight@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoYou could use Molly-FOSS, a fork of the signal client, to use Unifiedpush and receive notifications through a provider like ntfy (selfhostable) or sunup (which uses Mozilla by default)
minus-squareMisfit-Meower@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoTracker Detector also found Amazon, Google AND Microsoft trackers at MollyFoss.
Signal uses AWS as a backend. It also uses firebase for push notifications by default, meaning Google can tell whenever you get a notification!
So… should I just turn off Signal’s notifications?
You could use Molly-FOSS, a fork of the signal client, to use Unifiedpush and receive notifications through a provider like ntfy (selfhostable) or sunup (which uses Mozilla by default)
Tracker Detector also found Amazon, Google AND Microsoft trackers at MollyFoss.