• 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.

    • pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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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.