So I always here about on how Google Android and IOS those companies can see all your notifications. This is because to show a notification it calls an API.
Is there any technical reason that it has to send your notification data to Google and Apple or is it just to get more data on you?
The problem isn’t really 40 apps keeping connections open. That shouldn’t cause much battery drain or RAM usage. Really really heavy emphasis on “shouldn’t”.
Too many shitty apps that keep doing shit when running in the background instead of just waiting for data to arrive. So Google takes the sledgehammer approach and just doesn’t let apps do that and instead makes them rely on Google’s one dedicated background app that they know behaves.
Good guy Google. Guess what? The developer of apps can deliberately hide or delay the push notifications if it detects its background optimization is enabled. Really, really emphasize on “can”, not “should”.