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Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app (www.theverge.com)
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[–] jimbo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Because it's a significant inconvenience to disable those notifications over the very unlikely possibility that some bad actor will hoover that data up, much less do something nefarious with it.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Ah, fair enough.

I realize now that I misunderstood the objection, I thought you were saying that using signal was an unreasonable level of paranoia, but I can totally see why turning off notifications seems that way.