that’s not how push works. usually, google would only know you received a notification, but not it’s contents. that “dummy” notification wakes the app up, which decrypts and shows the real notification.
content aware stuff runs entirely locally on your phone, so no data is sent to google (unless you have telemetry enabled, in which case the reply or action you used will be sent to google together with the next telemetry data upload)
yes, some apps actually push the content directly through the push system, but that’s not how this is handled in most apps that handle private data in notifications.
You are wrong ;-)
The push stuff is just used to signal the receiver that there is a new message. No meaningful data is sent that way. Not even an encrypted message.
Call me paranoid, but Google owns Android. They can easily read the content of a notification as it’s displayed. They even have a Notification History app where you can see all applications from all apps.
With Signal’s default settings, Google reads your Signal messages when they come in through push notifications.
Correct me if I’m wrong.
that’s not how push works. usually, google would only know you received a notification, but not it’s contents. that “dummy” notification wakes the app up, which decrypts and shows the real notification.
content aware stuff runs entirely locally on your phone, so no data is sent to google (unless you have telemetry enabled, in which case the reply or action you used will be sent to google together with the next telemetry data upload)
yes, some apps actually push the content directly through the push system, but that’s not how this is handled in most apps that handle private data in notifications.
You are wrong ;-) The push stuff is just used to signal the receiver that there is a new message. No meaningful data is sent that way. Not even an encrypted message.
Call me paranoid, but Google owns Android. They can easily read the content of a notification as it’s displayed. They even have a Notification History app where you can see all applications from all apps.
You’re missing the point, there’s no message content sent in the notification, there’s nothing to read.
Or… And hear me out, Molly FOSS with Unified Push notifications. Problem solved!
I’m looking in to this, thank you!
Edit: Molly (UnifiedPush) isn’t something I can reasonably expect friends and family to set up.