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been using this for years.. it doesn't have the GCM crap and hence works on de-googlified custom ROMs as well. Surprised how many people don't seem to know abou

been using this for years.. it doesn't have the GCM crap and hence works on de-googlified custom ROMs as well. Surprised how many people don't seem to know about it.

godelski 10mo ago
> Surprised how many people don't seem to know about it. I'm pretty sure people just want to be angry. I mean look at how many people are arguing that updating is... bad. I cannot and will not take those people seriously. It's just such a laughable position.
RealCodingOtaku 10mo ago
> Surprised how many people don't seem to know about it. There are a few reasons for that. 1. The link to APK cannot be found on the official site[0], so it needs to be looked up in a search engine. 2. Even when downloading from the site, they try to scare you away with a warning [1]. The reason for warning could be avoided by hosting their own F-droid repo, but they refused it, claiming you can download APK and not listening to reason[2]. Though for people using F-droid can still get Signal through the Guardian repository [3] Thing about the signal APK and the Guardian one is that, it still have the so called "crap" in the final APK, it just runs a background service when required google services are not detected, causing battery drain for many[4]. The drain could also be avoided by supporting UnifiedPush (it can fall back to FCM when it's detected), but they don't want to do that either[5]. [0] https://signal.org/download/ https://signal.org/download/ [1] https://signal.org/android/apk/ https://signal.org/android/apk/ [2] https://community.signalusers.org/t/how-to-get-signal-apks-outside-of-the-google-play-store/808 https://community.signalusers.org/t/how-to-get-signal-apks-o... [3] https://guardianproject.info/fdroid/ https://guardianproject.info/fdroid/ [4] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9729 https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9729 [5] https://community.signalusers.org/t/use-gcm-fcm-alternatives-for-notifications/10264/7 https://community.signalusers.org/t/use-gcm-fcm-alternatives...

been using this for years.. it doesn't have the GCM crap and hence works on de-googlified custom ROMs as well. Surprised how many people don't seem to know about it.

godelski 10mo ago

> Surprised how many people don't seem to know about it. I'm pretty sure people just want to be angry. I mean look at how many people are arguing that updating is... bad. I cannot and will not take those people seriously. It's just such a laughable position.

RealCodingOtaku 10mo ago

> Surprised how many people don't seem to know about it. There are a few reasons for that. 1. The link to APK cannot be found on the official site[0], so it needs to be looked up in a search engine. 2. Even when downloading from the site, they try to scare you away with a warning [1]. The reason for warning could be avoided by hosting their own F-droid repo, but they refused it, claiming you can download APK and not listening to reason[2]. Though for people using F-droid can still get Signal through the Guardian repository [3] Thing about the signal APK and the Guardian one is that, it still have the so called "crap" in the final APK, it just runs a background service when required google services are not detected, causing battery drain for many[4]. The drain could also be avoided by supporting UnifiedPush (it can fall back to FCM when it's detected), but they don't want to do that either[5]. [0] https://signal.org/download/ https://signal.org/download/ [1] https://signal.org/android/apk/ https://signal.org/android/apk/ [2] https://community.signalusers.org/t/how-to-get-signal-apks-outside-of-the-google-play-store/808 https://community.signalusers.org/t/how-to-get-signal-apks-o... [3] https://guardianproject.info/fdroid/ https://guardianproject.info/fdroid/ [4] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9729 https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9729 [5] https://community.signalusers.org/t/use-gcm-fcm-alternatives-for-notifications/10264/7 https://community.signalusers.org/t/use-gcm-fcm-alternatives...