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Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users "In this case, the federal government prohibited us from sharing any information. Now that this method has become public we are updating our transparency reporting to detail these kinds of requests," Apple said in a statement.

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DeGoogled phones don't have Firebase push. Makes life a little rough, but do what you gotta do. Telegram and Signal get notifications regardless. Amethyst now has Unified push capabilities. You can host Unified Push on your own Nextcloud. Nextcloud Services app on Andrpid can poll your server every 5 seconds or so. This seems to be the only way to get your self-hosted Nextcloud Talk to get notificatipns.
@npub19dn7...wja7 @npub1yk2h...36tf @npub1satg...zplw "A source familiar with the matter confirmed that both foreign and U.S. government agencies have been asking 𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐋𝐄 𝐚𝐧𝐝 π†πŽπŽπ†π‹π„ for metadata related to push notifications. The data is said to have been used to attempt to tie anonymous users of messaging apps to specific Apple or Google accounts." "Earlier this year French developer David Libeau said users and developers were often unaware of how their apps emitted data to the U.S. tech giants via push notifications, calling them "a privacy nightmare." View quoted note β†’