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I don't recall any article like you said; can you provide me with a link?
Also, reading notifications is only possible if the notifications are not encrypted; otherwise, it is not possible.
And this relies on the service that is sending the notification and has nothing to do with the OS you are using.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/29/push-notification-surveillance-fbi/
Hi,
This has nothing to do with reading notifications but getting an approximate location based on notifications.
Like I said, if the notifications are sent encrypted, there is no way to read them.
Regarding tracking locations based on push messages, the only way to avoid it is by carefully selecting which apps are allowed to send you notifications.
Again, it does not matter what operating system you are using.
Notifications using fcm are not encrypted, I can literally go into my firebase console ant see this is the case
There is nothing stopping you from encrypting the payload instead of sending plain text.
??? The person I responded to literally is...