ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it
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The application, which allows users to add a pin on a map to show where ICE agents have recently been spotted, has climbed to the to the top of the App Store charts.
  • The Bard in GreenAEnglish
    3•21 days ago

    Their explanation for why it can’t be on Android is that the nature of Android push notifications is such that they (the developers) would need to maintain a database of device IDs that could be tied back to physical devices and potentially be used to deanonymize which users received which alerts.

    To me, this sounds lazy and like something that could be mitigated with End-To-End encryption.

    • @redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2•20 days ago

      Yeah they’re Apple devs who don’t understand Apple was caught in the same push notification scandal. The small technical differences don’t matter. Push notifications can have interchangeable providers or none at all now on android.

      Someone please help them, I bet their unit tests are nonexistent.