• raubarno@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It depends on non-free Google Play Services for push notifications, which puts you into a requirement to use an unmodified Google Android, which is potentially dangerous for a privacy app like this.

    Anyways, when it comes to E2EE IMs, Matrix ecosystem is much better.

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      1 year ago

      They distribute an apk that uses a websocket for notifications. It’s very hidden, which I do not understand in the slightest, but it exists.

      https://signal.org/android/apk/

      They make it seem dangerous to use, and don’t even explain why someone would need it. That needs improvement imo.

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        1 year ago

        They used to have it on the normal Download page ages ago but they seem to only provide it to avoid a shitstorm tbh! :/

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      1 year ago

      an interesting oddity: on my non-rooted xperia, signal thinks that i don’t have play services and so it falls back to… polling. every five minutes. killing my battery and my logs.

      i had to put signal into the restricted battery group, which means no notifications. i anxiously await the new molly, as i already have a unified push environment. it looks like the migration will be a bit delicate.

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      1 year ago

      I find mstrix’s E2E encryption design cumbersome and unintuitive to a point where id just prefer it off.