Those little popups may reveal location, device details, IP address, and more

“App developers can encrypt these messages when they’re stored (in transit they’re protected by TLS) but the associated metadata – the app receiving the notification, the time stamp, and network details – is not encrypted.”

    • dracs@programming.devEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I’ve swapped to using it since I switched to GrapheneOS. Only apps I’ve got using it so far are Tusky (Mastodon), Molly (Signal fork with UnifiedPush), and some of my self hosted stuff which allows for web hooks.

      I really hope it catches on in more apps. Especially as their library has automatic fallback to Google’s service.