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by mifeng 3327 days ago
Me too. On my Pixel, messages will randomly appear either in:

* Allo

* Hangouts

* Messenger (Android)

* Messenger (Facebook)

* WhatsApp

It's like SMS-Roulette.

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A possible solution would be to run all third party apps in containers and use computer vision (deep learning) to collect messages and notifications from their screens into a single place, if they don't want to cooperate officially. I don't know the legal implications though.

Another app that should run into a container and be post-processed by computer vision is the web browser. We need to contain the browser itself (more privacy) and keep the pesky ads out of our eyes in a way that is impossible to hack by clever scripting or ad-block detection. On the next round, ad publishers would have to create adversarial ads that fool the classifier which would be a whole lot more difficult.

I just tell everyone to email me. I have one email address. Everyone uses email. Problem solved.