cross-posted from: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/post/39255
Is self-hosted enough to avoid push notifications going through Apple and Google servers?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/post/39255
Is self-hosted enough to avoid push notifications going through Apple and Google servers?
That’s why everyone should use GrapheneOS. Sandboxed GooglePlay services can be used, if needed. I personally use 3 proprietary apps, one of them is WhatsApp Business (self-employed and for stupid dipshits that won’t use anything else…), which is more privacy-friendly than the personal client itself. Join the resistance! Use GrapheneOS :)
Good read about push notifications on GOS: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/9407-this-is-why-i-use-grapheneos
How does it handle push notifications? If they come from googles push service then they’d be exploitable as well.
https://grapheneos.org/faq#notifications
Indeed - it seems that this tracking is done completely outside of the phone, asking the network where, physically, the push notification was delivered (Tower, time, and date) to locate the phone and ostensibly the owner of the phone.
What we need is more open hardware. Current phones are privacy issues because they are black boxes. Even if a libre device has bad security it always can be improved.
I use Lineage os on my phone with only free apps.
How do you sandbox Google apps? Is it possible to do that with Google docs? I’ve been replacing everything else, but Google docs is difficult to replace.
Every app is sandboxed by default and has no permissions, which you can give them. Like StorageScope for accessing only certain files.