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Google requires you to use their infrastructure unless you want to have significantly reduced battery life. There is no energy efficient way to listen for noti
by foepys 5y ago
Google requires you to use their infrastructure unless you want to have significantly reduced battery life.
There is no energy efficient way to listen for notifications unless you use Google's solution that they baked into the kernel.
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- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoVery true. Every talk about app 'sideloading' should include the capability to make a device run an alternative push notifications service. It isn't much to ask, actually, such services are pretty easy to create.
- undefinedzero 5y agoIt will always take more energy to monitor two sockets than one, especially one that's less optimized. What is the downside of using Google's? You can E2E encrypt messages and using firebase for notifications is free.
- foepys 5y agoIt's about privacy. That metadata is extremly valuable is something that not only the NSA discovered but also Google, Facebook, and many more.