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by josephcsible 328 days ago
> 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.