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  • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•What are some controversial privacy topics?
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    5 months ago

    Google‘s or Apple‘s push notification servers turns out that doesn’t matter so much from what I undertstood.

    Can you elaborate? It’s my understanding that push notifications are only used to trigger Signal to check if there are messages - the message data and who/what triggered it is not being sent to Google/Apple. If you don’t trust push notifications, you can always use a De-google’d phone and the Signal APK which will fallback to polling the server; this will obviously impact battery life as the app needs to constantly be checking for new messages.

  • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•The Mozilla layoffs ... will get worse
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    5 months ago

    You do realise they’re trying to become the crypto WeChat?

    Any evidence to support this claim?

    Because I’m aware Signal introduced a beta crypto wallet 7 years ago, which was originally only available in select countries, and has had minimal resources allocated to its continued development since. They make zero mention of crypto/payment on their website, and best of all, the crypto wallet isn’t even enabled by default.

    Shit app with horrible management.

    And here you expose your personal emotional trauma by lashing at at the most inconsequential “nothing”: the development of a privacy preserving crypto wallet, “feature complete” half a decade ago, and disabled by default in a privacy preserving messenger.

    Signal is the best free, open source, E2EE messenger that doesn’t leak metadata and has decent UX. Best of all, its completely free to use. Simplex is a good contender, but the UX is still lacking.

  • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•The Mozilla layoffs ... will get worse
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    5 months ago

    Not the same scale but Signal has a rather new approach for a messaging client. Completely free and funded by user donations - at least that’s the direction they’re trying to head as their initial seed funding starts running low. I’ve doubled my donations for Signal because I’d like to help prove that its a working model and I encourage everyone who uses it to donate, even if it’s just once. I’d love to see Firefox head in that direction where funding goes directly to the browser’s development. If I donate to Firefox today it might go to one of their dozen or so other pet projects that are unrelated to the browser. I think their side projects are great and glad they were able to do them while they had the cash, but funding is clearly drying up and they need a whole restructure to keep the browser alive.