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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Lyxea to c/[email protected]
 
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[–] [email protected] 133 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So many people are going to sign up and never look at this once.

[–] Lyxea 47 points 1 year ago

and that's probably the scariest part

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What's crazy is even Instagram and WhatsApp don't have this many permissions.

[–] astrobound 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

IG and WhatsApp definitely still get all the telemetry they need - just through other methods or through OS level permission loopholes unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

No because that would hinder their ability to dump information about everything they're doing and who they're with for attention.