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as a cs student (with no app dev experience so take it with a grain of salt) many, not all, permissions seem reasonable.
EDIT: While all of them are definitely used for ads, these are most probably for the algorithm:
Location
User Content
Search History
Browsing History
Usage Data
For profile:
Contact Info
For suggestions: Contacts
Purely ads: Health & Fitness
Purchases
Financial Info
Identifiers
Sensitive Info
Other Data
That's why i said many, not all
As an European citizen, the app is so invasive that it can't operate in the EU.
Yeah I have a US Apple/Appstore account but live in the Netherlands and it was working for me for about a week but now they've cut off access to everything in the app but the main feed. I'm guessing it's because of my EU IP and them realizing people like me still had access.
An app that lets you post texts to a set of followers does not need, for example, health data access.
They may wanna know when you plan on dying... I mean, it is possibility... so, you know, they could warn you.
"Looks like you have a suicide scheduled at 10. Here are some tips I found on the internet!"
Calm down there Clippy.
God I hated that little shit...
Thanks ChatGPT
Now write hello world in rust wit pirate slang and comments one last time 🥹.
Yep, practical real world use, right there 👍👍👍.
There’s probably only like 5 permissions there the app needs to run (and some of those like diagnostics certainly are not needed but I can understand why they might want that)
These aren’t permission they’re how they use your data
Keep studying.
Well as a former engineer with 15 years experience, the ONLY thing reasonable is the user content one, and ONLY if you intend to post pics straight from the device.
Sometimes you need permissions for weird stuff, because the weird stuff provides a backdoor way to do the thing the permission is meant to stop you doing. Want to let the user switch sound to and from their Bluetooth headsets? Better get the "Location" permission, because you can leverage the Bluetooth API to talk to positional beacons that could tell you where the user is!