They do not allow that, but yeah, it’s just their OS which only allows access to the relevant system interface for their own app. Apple doesn’t let you send SMS with third-party apps either for example.
Though admittedly, Google is putting proprietary extensions on top of it in their client, and they are apparently running a lot of carriers’ RCS endpoints, and using their servers when the carrier doesn’t support it at all. Which is fair, but imo does not make RCS itself inherently proprietary.
(However this is also to some extent warranted, since carriers were and still are dragging their feet a lot implementing it despite RCS being a required part of 5G carrier services IIRC1. This seems to me like another IPv6 situation.)
This claims to work on a rooted Android phone (or one where you have control over the system image), and the underlying library is platform-independent so you could use it to implement RCS for a Linux or other phone: https://github.com/Hirohumi/RustyRcs. I haven’t tested it though since I also don’t Android (anymore).
1 Though maybe that was just for 5G standalone, which no carrier is doing yet anyway.
Unfortunately, the latter means having to maintain multiple email accounts, or forwarding services like Addy.io, SimpleLogin, Firefox Relay, or DuckDuckGo Email.
It doesn’t, you can hook multiple domains up to deliver mail to the same mail server. I have three domains pointing to a single server myself.
(edit: added full quote)
Podcasts are distributed via RSS (example). Spotify is probably just a frontend for that.
Here’s a demo one that works on rooted Android: https://github.com/Hirohumi/RustyRcs/
(Also iOS 18+ Messages lol)
It’s not RCS’s fault Google locks down the API on their OS.
Not an app, but one thing I can recommend that is pretty much “for free” is to turn on iCloud Advanced Data Protection, that gets you end-to-end encryption for pretty much all iCloud storage (photos and so on).
Everything else I would recommend is probably not going to happen (such as deleting Discord) or of questionable benefits (such as using the web version of Discord instead of what is probably the app) :^)
They’re FIDO keys but bad.
Here’s a great blog post from someone who knows what they’re talking about: https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-04-26-passkeys-a-shattered-dream/
I don’t know if there’s anything ready for use, there’s a library and demo app here: https://github.com/Hirohumi/rust-rcs-client
The nice thing about Apple’s Find My is that it runs in the background but only checks and sends your location when someone is actively looking at your location. Do these do that as well? I’ve tried Telegram’s location sharing before and it drains battery like crazy because it keeps the GPS receiver always on.
Yup, anything you can come up with will only work as well as putting “Delete after reading.” in the mail. You have to trust the recipient.