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Re:Signal not in compliance with new rules, say officials by thomastjeffery on Thursday June 24, 2021 @11:17AM (#27618869)
If you want to piggy back on Google's centralized notification system (which saves network and battery usage), you have to distribute via the play store. I have no idea whether signal does this, but it would make sense for them to.
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Re:Signal not in compliance with new rules, say officials by vngzs on Thursday June 24, 2021 @11:39AM (#27619181)
Signal has a means of delivering push notifications using their own infrastructure via websockets. It has a higher battery drain than using Google's push infrastructure, but it works.
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Re:Signal not in compliance with new rules, say officials by grishka on Thursday June 24, 2021 @12:05PM (#27619609)
You don't. You do need to create an app in the Google API console to obtain the key to send GCM notifications, but that's completely independent from the Play Store.
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Re:Signal not in compliance with new rules, say officials by CameronNemo on Thursday June 24, 2021 @12:35PM (#27620027)
Also I believe microG does intermediate with GCM if you ask it to.
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