The fuck does it need location data for?

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Clicking on details specifies that it’s the Coarse Location, with the reason given being statistics and marketing. Which makes sense, you might want to know the coarse location for user statistics. Now of course the user selects whether to share these or not, but if your app can support that, it has to declare the permissions on the store.

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26 points

I was looking forward to it but after i saw the data collection section i gave up.

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That is pretty standard for an app that has ads an in-app purchases.

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Is it? Why would it need access to my purchase history? Is this for supporting in-app purchases?

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24 points

To see if you purchased the app. You have to keep in mind that these descriptors are very broad and even a miniscule use of one requires it be disclosed.

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13 points

Oof. That’s looks very bad indeed. Is it oficially released yet? I’ve seen it before on beta/test versions of apps to ease debugging. Public release versions are usually very different regarding data collection needed.

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Let’s hope so, the Lemmy will probably manage to kill it fast if that’s in the actual release!

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44 points

Never for the life of me understood why Boost wasn’t mentioned alongside the other popular apps. It’s perfect. The only one I’ve used. All of my internal monologue feedback about Jerboa and Wefwef can be categorized under “Be Boost.”

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Twas awesome!

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15 points

Oh yeeesssssss. Boost was all I used.

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5 points

Is the app going to be open sourced? Please be

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Probably not. It’s harder to make money on an app when the code is publically available.

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