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They are ignored from the standpoint of Google Play displaying them to you in the listing but not ignored by Android itself. Google 'streamlined' the permissions displayed to users in the store years ago but you can still see them (mostly?) via Settings->Apps and notifications-><select an app>->Permissions. This was most likely partly because apps used to need to request some rather strange looking permissions from a user standpoint (i.e. a flashlight app needed camera permission since the phone's LED was tied to the camera API, for example[1]) and partly because Google itself normalized the 'kitchen sink' approach to permissions with its own apps in the store when they switched from baking them into the ROM to distributing updates via the store and now most large companies do something similar with their own Android apps.

Unfortunately, every spammy/scammy app came along for the ride and now you're fairly dependent on Google's scanning of the apps to catch the bad actors which has been shown time and time again to be insufficient.

[1] However, they never needed access to things like your contacts or networking... but for Google to flag apps that did things like that, their own apps would likely either be flagged or called out for hypocrisy given their own 'kitchen sink' app permissions.