Post #1524222
2026-04-09 15:30 UTC
@becomethewaifu afaik the notification setting is acted on by the Signal app itself, preventing even the on-device notification db from storing a copy of the message preview.
I haven’t heard of Signal mitigating unified push like that, though I suppose it makes sense architecturally. I’ll update that bit on my OP, thanks!
Do you know if Signal has any documentation on their notification architecture? I’d love to learn more about it
Edit: actually I’m just dumb 🙃 sorry for the accidental misinformation
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@becomethewaifu@tech.lgbt 2026-04-09 15:41
@phillip I don't remember where I read that signal does that, but I do remember that it came from an authoritative source to mitigate that exact "google can see your notifications" problem. And I can't find any docs on it, but I did find a thread from someone "who's probably an authoritative source": https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/111563866152334347 And it's technically not misinformation, as AFAIK push notifications aren't by nature E2E encrypted, though they can be, it's just that signal in particular has mitigated that particular hole so it's not true for signal.