If you're privacy conscious, then UnifiedPush is a good alternative to Google's solution for push notifications.
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It's likely a bug: https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild/-/work_items?show=eyJpaWQiOiIxNzYiLCJmdWxsX3BhdGgiOiJyZWxhbi9mZW5uZWNidWlsZCIsImlkIjoxODY5NDI0MzF9
Personally, I'm waiting to see what the devs say, but if it gets on your nerves, you can hide the notification in the Android settings.
I'm just not sure, if it is maybe needed again at a later point, which is why I'm holding off.
It does seem like a bug. I actually have a UnifiedPush distributor but have never configured Fennec to use it (I didn't even know it was an option) but now Fennec shows me this warning and there is no way to actually enable it in settings anymore.
Yeah, same. As they discuss in that issue I linked, it seems like in this partocular scenario, it gets stuck thinking it should remove a UnifiedPush distributor, but there is none to remove, so it keeps trying again and again, each time sending the same notification. But yeah, just my high-level understanding of the initial analysis...
Unified push is a way to get live notifications on your phone. Google provides Firebase Cloud Messaging to do this with Google Play Services and unified push offers an alternative. If you want to know more about the topic, you read more on https://unifiedpush.org/
Go to settings > notifications and turn off unified push. It's a bug, someone posted the gitlab link further up.
Do you want push notifications from your browser? If so, then probably. Unified Push is a trusted, commonly used alternative to Play Services push notifications.
Tried Ironfox yet?
Haven't heard of it, what's the deets?
It's a privacy hardened Fennec available from the GOS Accrescent app installation source. I only use Vanadium for sites that don't run in it.
Except Accrescent isn't owned by GOS or affiliated with them. Its just a recommended app store by GOS on top of GOS' own app store and in general for people not on GOS. Ironfox is also available directly from github and Obtainium can be used to install and update Ironfox from github along with other apps directly from github.
I use many software installation sources, including Obtainium from GitHub. I do not assign the same trust levels to each. E.g. F-Droid at least has some shallow level of review for the packages they build.
It's also on f-droid
Yes it is, but f-droid isnt as recommended as getting it from the source. F-Droid is fine but Obtainium with direct from github is better.