b-but you had 26 min play time tho on the serious note idk why they for the permission but i dont see anything weird happening

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hahaha. thanks for the laugh: D I'm not sure why it's reporting so much playtime. I opened it once, saw the requested permissions, and then shut it off to research it and find out why in the world they'd want that permission. It's possible that, given As far as I can see, there's zero reason to ask for both permissions (phone or full access to file system) except for nefarious purposes. If the app had been produced many years ago, say 2017ish, then I could maybe see, as some legacy apps to this day still make requests for permissions that are widereaching just to get at a single feature which had gotten bundled up with it in the permissions groupings of old, but 2019 should be recent enough to make this extremely unlikely. To be clear, what this app is asking for gives them access to your phone call logs (and the ability to modify them), your phone number, the ability to make and receive calls, the ability to read your texts, the ability to send texts, the ability to delete texts, and the ability to read, delete, or modify any of the files on the device (though some of this depends on your Android OS version, it gets far worse the further back you go). Their privacy policy is a big chunk of legalese that tries very hard to distract you from the sole fact that they absolutely can and will do whatever they please, and for whatever reasons, and unbeknownst to you, and without ever notifying you. It pretty clearly spells out the picture, after countless nonsense words meant to tire you out and beginning with specifically their policies regarding sweepstakes and other irrelevant crud and how they won't misuse your data during a sweepstake or your credit card number. Yet towards the end, it explicitly states in no uncertain terms that you're also agreeing to one of their marketing contractor's privacy policies, which is even more dull to read, but blatantly states that they intend to use your data, and that is whatever data they can possibly get off you and legally use (in Germany, as far as I can see), by selling it. There's no reason they would be including these permissions if they had no intention of harvesting it. Also, given that I posted that comment on my Pixel 3a XL, I'd assume I was most likely trying to see what the app was accessing, since my Pixel is rooted and has numerous tools to help analyze app behavior. I would highly caution you, and anyone else, regarding this or any other app requesting these permissions. 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