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by vocenellanotte 328 days ago
Actually, the app doesn’t request those permissions from the user at runtime. It works fully offline, and no network access is required or used.

Those permissions may appear because of default Play Store licensing checks, but no data is collected or transmitted.

Appreciate the feedback — I’ll double-check if they can be stripped out in the next version to avoid confusion

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> Actually, the app doesn’t request those permissions from the user at runtime.

The reason I don't like those permissions is that if they're listed for the app, it just automatically gets them without needing to request them at runtime.

> I’ll double-check if they can be stripped out in the next version to avoid confusion

They can definitely be stripped out. I have a lot of other apps installed that don't have them. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.boyle.chr... is an open-source example of one.