A confidential variant of push notifications
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Hendrik Thom
The current implementation of push notifications is critical from the point of view of data protection and information confidentiality. It would be nice if there would be a variant in which no user data is sent via the "Firebase Cloud Messaging service". You could take Threema as an example here. Threema sends via the "Firebase Cloud Messaging service" only the information that there is a new message. However, the actual message is then fetched directly from the Threema-server. More details can be found here: https://threema.ch/de/faq/privacy_push
Alternatively, it would also be sufficient for us if the push notification contained a generic text such as "There is a new message". The user can then open the app manually.
Olaf Stehr
I strongly support this improvement request.
It would also allow to "measure" how many notifications are actually recieved by mobile clients. - That would be an interesting metric for us.
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Jan Priebe
After using the Linchpin Mobile App for a while, we see the numbers of page views by LP App decrease from day to day. I am sure that push notifications would help keeping those figures up.
With the current implementation we also cannot use push notifications at all.
Daniel Roller
Hendrik Thom Thanks for submitting this idea! I like this a lot since it values privacy but at the same time provides live updates for activity in the user's internal systems. I'll create an internal task in our product backlog for this, have a chat with the dev team, and get back to you with some more information on what's possible here :)