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#UnifiedPush

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Please 🚀. I'm going to stop short of saying you should not install the #ICEBlock app, but you should know that you're painting a giant target on your back if you use it, and it does not protect your information adequately. The Trump administration is not being coy about how they see this app and it's users, citing charges of obstruction of justice and general threats of prosecution.

The developer ignorantly insists the only way to safely use it is through iOS app store. That ignores the fact that Apple collects data on what users are installing what apps. It also ignores that the gov has been intercepting push notifications for several years now, so it would be as simple as comparing that data against those who receive push notifications at specific times to determine who is using the app.

The app is also closed-source, so the community cannot inspect it for vulnerabilities.

If they distributed through a 3rd party app store on Android, such as #fdroid (which you cannot do on iOS), they could allow users to run their own notification system using #unifiedpush. Google would not be involved at any stage.

Yes, this would be a high barrier to entry for use, but I think the usecase demands it. Almost certainly we will soon see prosecution for the apps' users and probably also removal from the App Store. Apple most certainly does not care enough to fight the government over this.

That is, unless, as I suspect, this app is actually a #honeypot.

Further reading:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-secretly-giving-governments-push-notification-data/

https://www.iceblock.app/android

https://www.newsweek.com/kirsti-noem-iceblock-deportation-immigration-app-2092878

#privacy #security #foss #fossdroid #ice #infosec #boostsappreciated

Ars Technica · Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification dataBy Ashley Belanger
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@DoKo @moshidon Setting up #UnifiedPush today has almost driven me insane. Tried different distributors, different #ntfy servers, not even the UP test app was triggering notifications despite registering successfully (as all other apps did). Then I switched to the official ntfy server and most apps started working but #ElementX based #Matrix clients did not. Then I read about this issue: github.com/element-hq/element-
And after a while they just started working too... but not the original Element client. 🤦 🤷

GitHubNot receiving notifications on the F-Droid version with unified push · Issue #3031 · element-hq/element-x-androidBy K4LCIFER

🤯 🤯

  • I've ported UnifiedPush to Firefox, so it can receive background notifications using the service you want, specially useful for PWA (installable web application)
  • ntfy provides a PWA
  • So I can receive ntfy notifications with their PWA through any push service, for instance using Sunup :D

Vous avez dégooglisé votre smartphone et utilisez des alternatives aux applis #meta (par exemple) ? Vous aurez sans doute besoin d'une passerelle compatible #unifiedpush pour "pousser" vos notifications, qui habituellement passent par les services Google. C'est le cas par exemple pour le client #matrix #schildichat ou le client #tusky qui lorsque qu'ils ne sont pas connectés à un serveur push sont obligés de consulter à intervalles régulières l'arrivée de nouveaux messages ou d'évènements pour vous notifier. Grâce à l'appli #ntfy f-droid.org/fr/packages/io.hec et à un serveur push (ntfy.sh par défaut) vos applis recevront des notifications comme elles le faisaient avec Google mais via un serveur push de votre choix (que vous pouvez d'ailleurs héberger).

f-droid.orgntfy - PUT/POST vers téléphone | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App RepositoryEnvoyez des notifications à votre téléphone par script via des requêtes PUT/POST

Great news for the wafrn app !!

As a culmination of the big journey of the past weeks, the Wafrn App is now listed in the official @unifiedpush documentation as one of the apps that support UnifiedPush

Check it at https://unifiedpush.org/users/apps/


#WafrnDev #FediDev #UnifiedPush #Degoogle #FreeServices
UnifiedPushApps using UnifiedPushThis is a non-exhaustive list of the first few end-user applications that use UnifiedPush. Android Name Description Date Since version Docs¹ FluffyChat Matrix chat January 2021 v0.26.1 FluffyChat push notifications² Fedilab Mastodon/Fediverse March 2021 v2.39.0 Fedilab push notifications² Tox Push Message App Tox chat May 2021 v1.0.3 generic SchildiChat Matrix chat September 2021 v1.2.0.sc42 generic FindMyDevice Find your device November 2021 v0.2.2 generic Element Matrix chat June 2022 v1.4.26 generic Tusky Mastodon/Fediverse July 2022 v19.0 generic Neon Nextcloud July 2022 Unreleased generic Jami Jami March 2023 v361 generic Goguma IRC client March 2023 v0.5.0 generic Circles Social Network (matrix) June 2023 v1.0.11 generic Databag Messaging Service July 2023 v1.5.0 generic Podverse (beta) Podcast Manager July 2023 v4.13.1 generic Moshidon Mastodon August 2023 v2.0.3+fork.98 generic Träwelldroid Traewelling client September 2023 v2.0.0 generic Pachli Mastodon September 2023 v1.0.0 generic Molly Signal client October 2023 v6.35.3-1.up1 mollysocket Amethyst Nostr client October 2023 v0.80.1 generic Ltt.rs Mail (JMAP) client December 2023 0.4.0 generic Mercurygram Telegram client December 2023 v10.3.2.1 generic Element-X Matrix chat January 2024 v0.4.2 generic SchildiChat Next Matrix chat January 2024 v0.4.2.sc1 generic Nagram Telegram client April 2024 10.9.1.1165 generic DAVx⁵ CalDAV/CardDAV/WebDAV September 2024 v4.4.2-ose Nextcloud extension for WebDAV-Push Momogram Telegram client December 2024 v11.4.2-1 generic FOSS Warn Emergency alerts December 2024 1.0.0 alpha0 FOSS Warn Wiki Wafrn App Social Network (Fediverse + Bluesky) May 2025 v1.3.0 generic ¹ App-specific documentation should not be needed. Compatible apps should just work after installing a UnifiedPush distributor.