• Preston Maness ☭@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    one of the reasons the Signal app can’t be put unaltered on F-droid is because it loads in external dependencies from Google at run-time

    IIRC, the APK you get directly from their website doesn’t have the GCM bits in it (edit: I did not recall correctly; the GCM bits are there, but there is a websocket fallback if GCM isn’t available), and will work without them. At least, I didn’t have any issues with notifications back when I was running the website APK with GrapheneOS and no Google bits.