I don't have google services on my phone and having every app permanently connected checking for new messages is detrimental to battery life. UnifiedPush is the open alternative to Google Cloud Messaging: https://unifiedpush.org
Which apps are you referring to? Google and Apple’s services have long been the default choice for notifications on mobile devices. Other options get killed off by battery optimization processes without special setup.
Signal has their own implementation of notifications, which uses WebSockets. It works, and it doesn’t rely on Google, but it eats up battery like crazy. If every app did this, you would have a battery life of an hour. That’s why UnifiedPush is a better solution.
Would this avoid google push?
Yes
To was bad decision to rely on Google… Good to see them fix it considering what we know now
It used to be less of a decision and more push or no push.
Other apps didn’t rely on google for notifications
I am not following how proton is different
Which apps are you referring to? Google and Apple’s services have long been the default choice for notifications on mobile devices. Other options get killed off by battery optimization processes without special setup.
Signal
Signal has their own implementation of notifications, which uses WebSockets. It works, and it doesn’t rely on Google, but it eats up battery like crazy. If every app did this, you would have a battery life of an hour. That’s why UnifiedPush is a better solution.
Thank you for the info.
Yeah my phone battery is destroyed by signal and browser usage pretty much lol
Yeah, that’s the entire point of it