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> I this particular case the centralization around the push service of google actually helps. No, it does not, and you even argued why. This centralization mak
by madez 9y ago
> I this particular case the centralization around the push service of google actually helps.
No, it does not, and you even argued why. This centralization makes it harder to make the system more resilient.
We need an alternative to GCM.
- BubuIIC 9y agoI'd argue that in this case the centralization helps because blocking GCM would kill all notifications for all apps. As long as they (Russia) are not willing to do that Telegram can use this as a side-channel to update their IPs for all clients. The other option would be for google to turn push notifications off selectively for Telegram and only in russia. Not sure if they can/will do that.
- Canada 9y agoIf Google will comply with an order to remove apps from the store in certain regions then they can certainly comply with orders to filter push messages destined for specific apps as well.
- Eridrus 9y agoThese are very different actions though, I doubt they would be seen as equivalent to any of the parties involved.
- drdaeman 9y agoBTW, microG GmsCore does GCM (although I'm not sure if it also implements FCM APIs), while being pure FLOSS.
- madez 9y agoMy problem with GCM is not the implementation on the client, but the fact that Google sees traffic. I don't want Google to see my data nor my metadata.
- pmlnr 9y ago> We need an alternative to GCM. It's called SMS.