alt Hacker NewsI wonder whats the difference between permisions do giant apps like whatsapp, instagram have for notification service.
cause they seem like perfectly integrated themselves into this, while ntfy has to pose itself as battery consuming application
I'm planning to using ntfy for notifications like bitwarden vault backups, if apps are updated.
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lxgr • today at 3:24 PM
What do you mean by "battery consuming application"? At least the PWA of ntfy can use Web Push, which uses your browser's existing push notification service and should not consume any additional battery.
edoceo • today at 3:25 PM
I've been using ntfy for ages. Doesn't chew my battery too much. Chrome, mail and mattermost are my top. Ntfy gets less than 30 notifications per day.
Probably not permissions so much as proper implementation of push messaging for mobile. Apple created a push message infrastructure and Google followed that allows their messaging infrastructure already running on the phone to multiplex messages for multiple apps without needing additional power for listening.
I use Pushover for email push notifications- it doesn’t have a subscription and using the proper APIs.