You might be getting pull notifications, that's generally the workaround for push notifications being disabled - it generally increases battery usage because it forces the app to stay open in the background.
bearboiblake
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The message you send them would probably go through as a push notification to them, but the message they send you wouldn't.
I'm actually talking about sensitive data on Google/Apple hosted servers, as well as on the phone itself!
If you don't use Google Play Services, you don't get push notifications, so yes. Libre reimplementations of Google Play Services such as Gapps etc. or alternative push notification providers do not circumvent this issue, except possibly self-hosted push notification providers. This approach is really rare though and limited generally to very few apps.
What would you call it?
Obviously Europe is not immune to imperialist sentiment, but at the moment, America is a great, terrible evil, perhaps the worst the world has ever seen. Even if our own societies aren't perfect, we are far better apart from fascist America than we would be with them.
It always bears repeating, push notifications are not private, neither for Android, GrapheneOS, nor iOS, even if you use end-to-end encryption. If you are privacy conscious, you should either use settings to hide sensitive data from push notifications or turn them off altogether.
It does seem to be going that way. We certainly do live in interesting and terrifying times. Reminiscent of the build up towards World War 2, except this time, with nuclear weapons...
I wish it needn't have happened in my time.
France has nukes, at least. I agree, though, unfortunately and tragically it seems that nuclear sovereignty is becoming necessary.
Honestly, as a European, this is a good thing. For far too long the entire western world have basically been vassals of the American empire. This is an opportunity to finally get out from under their shadow and forge our own path, away from imperialism and towards peaceful multilateral diplomacy.
Once all of the Palestinians and others pushed out of the region by Israel's decades long ethnic cleansing campaign return to their homes, I'm sure they'll be able to forge a new society from what remains.
De-nazification obviously shouldn't be death - except perhaps for people like Bibi himself, and other leaders - but truth and reconciliation campaigns, cult deprogramming, re-education initiatives, and laws against zionists holding positions of power in the new nation formed.
It depends on the app. Some apps do (or can be configured to) indeed send "empty"/blank notifications which just notify you that you've received a new message from an app, but not from whom, or what the message contains.
However most apps by default will contain more data, such as who the message is from, and some/all of the sent message body.