RCS is off-topic.
Regarding Push, there is UnifiedPush which has already seen a wide adoption, e.g. Matrix. That’s also the one used by Nfty. It’s free and opensource and can be used by anyone.
Voxel
Lemmy account of Voxel, for more information see:
- 0 Posts
- 13 Comments
Joined 3 months ago
Cake day: March 5th, 2026
You are not logged in. If you use a Fediverse account that is able to follow users, you can follow this user.
9·7 days agoI don’t think Google “search” is has a 99% marketshare, it is probably less.
No, it only lets you change it to those whitelisted by the OS, which is by default only the Android System Webview. Maybe its AOSP variant too. On older Android versions also Chrome, I don’t know if this is still the case with newer ones.
You can’t change the System WebView unless you use root or an alternative Android distro that allows you to change it, like Iodé does.
The Android System WebView by Google is hardcoded into an internal list as one of the very few allowed ones.
https://www.androidauthority.com/what-is-android-system-webview-3267814/
The first part is inaccurate. uBlock Origin, Brave Shields, etc. have much more control over the website then network based filters. They can set cookies, block specific cookies, block scripts, modify the html, modify the URL and more. DNS based blockers like Pi-Hole are limited to domain-based blocking.
Software developer here, while I do not know everything about it, from what I observed and learned is following the case:
- NewPipe has a component called NewPipe Extractor which is also used by most other opensource YT clients like LibreTube. From what I observed, it extracts the video URL for the stream without rly loading anything else of YouTube.
- When you use YouTube in a browser, the entire YouTube page is loaded minus the content that has been blocked by Brave Shields, uBlock Origin or other utilities.
I think privacy and security wise there is not a lot if not at all a difference, as both take a best effort approach to limit YT’s ads and tracking mechanisms.
The only real difference is if you log in via e.g. Grayjay and on the website directly. Grayjay will only use your token to authenticate while necessary and not share all kinds of data with YT, while the website stores your watch history, search history, etc.
I’m mostly referring to the 2026 which aren’t just “shitty moves”, but straight up illegal.
They falsified archived information and inserted the name of a person they did not like.
And also, used their websites users as a kind of botnet to DDoS the other website.
Yes, but I can’t them right now, but you should be able to find them online.
You shouldn’t be using it under any of its domains:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today
(Referring to the abuse of its website’s users to DDoS another website and falsifying archived websites)
Mistral, Kagi, DuckDuckGo, Brave Leo and probably more let you all use AI services without a Google account.
Android works perfectly fine without a Google account, even Stock Android. Only thing you’ve to take into account is that you won’t be able to use the Play Store properly (and “Find my device” if you use it).
I’m tired of having to correct people, but I will do it anyway.
This is wrong. If you look up the definition for monopoly, you will realize it is false. At worst, it’s a duopoly. If we exclude Huaweii Push, etc.
That is also wrong. Idk how you got the idea of it being a “proxy”.
“UnifiedPush is a decentralized push notification system that lets you choose the service you want to use. It’s designed to be privacy-friendly, flexible, and open — making it perfect if you want control over your push notifications.”
https://unifiedpush.org/