MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 months agoSignal?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up12arrow-down1imageSignal?lemmy.worldMeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square11linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareXylight@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months 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-squareMeowerMisfit817@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoSo… should I just turn off Signal’s notifications?
minus-squareXylight@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months 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-squareMeowerMisfit817@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months 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.