[gertburger]

For the oauth login it requires the following permissions: View basic information about your account, Manage your data in Google Reader, View your email address Manage your contacts, View and manage your Google Contacts, Perform these operations when I'm not using the application

Why would it want access to view AND MANAGE my contacts? This seems a bit odd.

[w01fe]

I understand your concern ... see my response here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5373701

Short answer, we don't want access to manage your contacts, there's just not a read-only option (last time I checked).