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0 pointsdublinben9y ago0 comments

GCM is merely one minor component. The existence of the microg project proves that you can implement one without the other.

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MicroG does not implement GCM.

MicroG does implement the GCM client! I've been getting push notifications through that thing for several months.

No, it implements one half of it.

Signal still has to be linked with a proprietary binary, which contains lots of tracking code.

Through Google, yes, but you can't bring along your own push notification delivery service.

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MicroG does not implement GCM.

MicroG does implement the GCM client! I've been getting push notifications through that thing for several months.

No, it implements one half of it.

Signal still has to be linked with a proprietary binary, which contains lots of tracking code.

Through Google, yes, but you can't bring along your own push notification delivery service.

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