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Or maybe it's the governments dislike of VPNs being used to bypass surveillance

I know about the setting. Why are you saying that information is sent to Google’s servers? As far as I have found, that information is only stored locally on your phone

Source? I am not seeing anything about that. The only problem I have seen on Android is when applications use firebase for notifications, which is most play store apps to be fair, just no FDroid apps or some privacy preserving apps

You also don’t need to do this on Android unless you are concerned about random people seeing the messages on your screen. Signal on Android does not use Google’s push notification service

It’s not because of push notifications. the message is not sent to firebase, just a signal that the app should do a refresh. Is is 100% because of firebase. Here is an example payload from firebases official document: { "message":{ "token":"bk3RNwTe3H0:CI2k_HHwgIpoDKCIZvvDMExUdFQ3P1...", "notification":{ "title":"Portugal vs. Denmark", "body":"great match!" } } } firebase.google.com/docs/…/set-message-type Notification history is purely local to the device. It is not sent to any servers.

This is not always the same on Android. Any app from FDroid will not use Google’s push notification service because it is proprietary, meaning it violates the rules for FDroid. Signal does not use Google’s notification service

Why would they need to listen? That's a lot of processing power for information we already give them. They don't need to listen, honestly. They get more information from us than we verbally communicate.

Yeah, I think she likes me. Mmmm, can’t be so sure. Better play it safe and look for more signs

Literally the exact plot of a black mirror episode.

The financial incentive would be open and standard document format to ease development and provide reliability

It's elementary school. They'd probably just explain it and have them try again.