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How I use 500 Miles to track promising tech companies (medium.com)
2 points by s_reid9 3771 days ago
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Quite a commercial.

The app rates only 3.4 on Google Play.

Worse yet, it demands access to all this data:

Version 2.92 can access:

Identity: find accounts on the device

Contacts: find accounts on the device

Location: approximate location (network-based)

Phone: read phone status and identity

Photos/Media/Files: modify or delete the contents of your USB storage read the contents of your USB storage

Storage: modify or delete the contents of your USB storage read the contents of your USB storage

Device ID & call information: read phone status and identity

Other: receive data from Internet view network connections full network access prevent device from sleeping control vibration run at startup pair with Bluetooth devices use accounts on the device