this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2025
790 points (100.0% liked)

Technology

72362 readers
2940 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
790
Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App (newrepublic.com)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
153 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That doesn't have anything to do with how you install the app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It has to do with receiving notifications from the app in a privacy-preserving way. Unless the app is running with a server connection 24/7 (RIP battery life) you need to rely on the OS to deliver notifications.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You don't, there's privacy respecting ways of delivering notifications in android.

Also, a 24/7 connection to a server isn't nearly as bad as you might think.

The connection isn't active the whole time, it only uses any significant amount of battery if there's actually data being sent or received. You likely already have quite a few of them anyway, how do you think systems normally listen for push notifications?

Besides all that, I read in other comments that the privacy issue was the device id firebase needs. Obviously apple also needs some kind of device id, otherwise how do they know where the notifications are going?

Did some searching, yup apple also needs a unique identifier:

When it’s time to send a notification, you generate a request that contains the notification data and a unique identifier for the user’s device.

From https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/setting-up-a-remote-notification-server

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Apple notification identifiers are unique to an app install and regularly change though, so it’s hardly a device identifier.