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[–] nsfw936421@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You are wrong ;-) The push stuff is just used to signal the receiver that there is a new message. No meaningful data is sent that way. Not even an encrypted message.

[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Call me paranoid, but Google owns Android. They can easily read the content of a notification as it's displayed. They even have a Notification History app where you can see all applications from all apps.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You’re missing the point, there’s no message content sent in the notification, there’s nothing to read.

[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I'm not talking about the FCM message, I'm talking about Android running on your phone, where the message content is displayed to you.

[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

At some point, Android is reading the message to generate the quick replies that were showing in the notification. They're content-aware and this is not a function of Signal; if someone sent me a question, there were "yes" and "no" quick replies. If someone sent that they were going to be late, there were quick replies like "That's OK", etc.