A phone’s push notifications can contain a significant amount of information about you, your communications, and what you do throughout the day. And there are myriad ways that law enforcement can access the content or metadata of push notifications. Let’s fix that.
  • Libb@piefed.socialEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I never managed to understand why Notifications became so… essential to so many users.

    I have none myself. I’m not some high profile political leader or some mega corp CEO that needs to be informed in real time of the world events. Things and informations can wait for me t check on them when I feel like it ;)

    Notifications, that is the first things I turn off on a new phone/computer.

    • cerothem@lemmy.caEnglish
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      7 months ago

      From my perspective it’s a place where things collect so I know if there’s a reason to open an app. I don’t bounce in and out of apps or check things at all unless there’s a notification.

      I leave my phone on silent at all times so when I do look at it I check the notification area, but not all the different things that might put a notification in there.

      Also I disable notifications for most things that would spam me.