I’ve recently restarted noroot firewall on my Android device and it seems as if either the dns or the firewall settings for apps are resulting in no push notifications. I am getting notifications for noroot firewall but nothing else, not LINE, nor telegram, discord etcetera. I haven’t completely locked apps down but I do block any Facebook and google addresses. The phone is not rooted, so I have completely blocked the google app but I do not see why that would create this issue. Unfortunately I am not knowledgeable when it comes to firewall control, I am aware of telemetry and privacy and obviously concerned enough to use said firewall, but it seems to be causing problems that I don’t know how to fix or circumvent.
Unfortunately no firebase logs that I can see. I actually just read in a related topic the they are using mtalk for notifications now. The only things that show up in my logs are googleusercontent
Edit: just had a request for si-in-f188.1e100.net, unblocked it, notifications came flooding in.
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Have a look at my comment just before your new reply. I found the culprit just a few minutes ago through the logs. I don’t have any lists, this is just me creating global rules through trial and error, as I said I don’t have a lot of knowledge on what addresses talk to one another.
I have blocked googleusercontent but not other requests by Google services/play store. Mainly because I want to start removing my dependence on Google and/or reduce the amount of data they are scraping. Same goes for meta (instagram and Facebook are uninstalled yet I am still getting requests from meta services). Could be hopeless but I want to try.
I have not looked at the method you mentioned with graphene or rethink dns. I will have to read about it.
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from the domain, the “e100” part comes from the “1 followed by a 100 zeroes” definition of googol, from whence Google got their name.
Interesting!