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Without an application what is the difference between a notification and a text message/iMessage? I can see spammers creating schemes to obtain peoples notific

Without an application what is the difference between a notification and a text message/iMessage? I can see spammers creating schemes to obtain peoples notification URL/address and bombarding them with multimedia popup ads with no ability for the user to block them. Tying notifications to apps at least means that there is some audit trail and ability for users to stop receiving notifications and ultimately for the developer/sender to be removed entirely.

zikduruqe 5y ago
I just use the SMS Gateway of my provider to send mail to. https://www.liquisearch.com/list_of_sms_gateways https://www.liquisearch.com/list_of_sms_gateways For example, when one of my servers reboots, I have this in cron: @reboot sleep 600 && echo "Server has rebooted" | mail -s "Alert - Reboot notification" 2125551212@smstext.com
- binwiederhier 5y ago
  ntfy can send e-mail too, no installation, no token, no signup: https://ntfy.sh/docs/publish/#e-mail-notifications https://ntfy.sh/docs/publish/#e-mail-notifications curl -d "Server has rebooted" "ntfy.sh/mytopic?email=phil@example.com"
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jedberg 5y ago
> Without an application what is the difference between a notification and a text message/iMessage? SMS isn't secure and I can't send an iMessage from the command line. Push notification is the only way to get a message securely to my phone. > I can see spammers creating schemes to obtain peoples notification URL/address and bombarding them with multimedia popup ads with no ability for the user to block them. I addressed this in a sibling comment -- it would still go through Apple's servers and there is a lot they can do to mitigate that. > Tying notifications to apps at least means that there is some audit trail and ability for users to stop receiving notifications and ultimately for the developer/sender to be removed entirely. If apple ran the service, they would have all the same paper trails and mitigations.

zikduruqe 5y ago

I just use the SMS Gateway of my provider to send mail to. https://www.liquisearch.com/list_of_sms_gateways https://www.liquisearch.com/list_of_sms_gateways For example, when one of my servers reboots, I have this in cron: @reboot sleep 600 && echo "Server has rebooted" | mail -s "Alert - Reboot notification" 2125551212@smstext.com

binwiederhier 5y ago
ntfy can send e-mail too, no installation, no token, no signup: https://ntfy.sh/docs/publish/#e-mail-notifications https://ntfy.sh/docs/publish/#e-mail-notifications curl -d "Server has rebooted" "ntfy.sh/mytopic?email=phil@example.com"
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jedberg 5y ago

> Without an application what is the difference between a notification and a text message/iMessage? SMS isn't secure and I can't send an iMessage from the command line. Push notification is the only way to get a message securely to my phone. > I can see spammers creating schemes to obtain peoples notification URL/address and bombarding them with multimedia popup ads with no ability for the user to block them. I addressed this in a sibling comment -- it would still go through Apple's servers and there is a lot they can do to mitigate that. > Tying notifications to apps at least means that there is some audit trail and ability for users to stop receiving notifications and ultimately for the developer/sender to be removed entirely. If apple ran the service, they would have all the same paper trails and mitigations.