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OneSignal cofounder here. Posting since our service was mentioned in this article.

For those concerned or curious about location data collection, we wrote an explanation of how it works: https://onesignal.com/blog/youre-in-control-how-location-act...

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We do not sell user data. Period.

You’ll sell it if you sell your company (as per your privacy policy).[1]

We may disclose or transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any acquisition of our business, financing or similar transaction.

If you wouldn’t sell it, period, then I’d suggest amending your privacy policy to include irrevocable deletion of customer data at the point your company is sold to a buyer.

[1] https://onesignal.com/privacy_policy


I would love to see a response to this comment from the OP.

Same. OP will likely ignore it though.

Same

Yes that's the normal way of doing things? Why would someone buy a business with no user base?

I believe the problem is not doing this, but the text in the policy is misleading, since users would believe their data would never be shared with anyone outside of the company itself _unconditionally_, which is not true (if only by technicality), the data can be sold as part of the company.

Great question, however the important point here is that the company makes the claim they will not sell user data. "Period." So the company implies that if they are sold they will be sold with no user data

I think that's a silly read of what they're saying

Dead link

The onesignal domain is on the IPFire Domain Blocklist

Found 1 list exactly matching 'onesignal.com':

  - https://dbl.ipfire.org/lists/ads/domains.txt
    block list
    added:         2026-02-13 15:00:20
    last modified: 2026-02-13 15:00:20
    last updated:  2026-03-29 04:02:16 (126.625 domains)
    enabled, used in 1 group
    comment: "IPFire Advertising"
    matching entries:
    - onesignal.com

Works for me.

weird, still dead here (entire rest of the internet is fine) :shrug:


Bump this please. This should be the #1 comment.



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