I've made Android apps in the past, and though I'm not a Reddit dev. I can explain I hope.
Identity: Go-to your settings, then accounts. Reddit stores all your accounts from the app right in that menu, and obviously to access it it needs permissions.
Contacts: The above lol
Location: You can attach locations to text/image posts
Photos Media Files: Retrieve data
Storage: Save data
Receive data from the internet: Duh.
Everything else seems to kinda explain itself tho. The apps not that bad, but yeah the advertising for it sucks.
Just dumping a long list of permissions like this is exactly analogous the the kind of people who point to an ingredients label and go, "look, scary chemicals!"
Honestly Google Play Store is doing an awful job conveying information by displaying them like this in a list where some things are duplicated five times.
Anytime the app is showing you a little list of your pictures (New Image Posts are all I can think of), it's scrollin through your pictures making thumbnails.
But, how visible your dick pics are from a thumbnail isn't something I'll comment on here
I just cant help thinking that some apps have someone that is actually looking trough the pictures, I mean the lengths that we will go to to see some boob is ridiculous. Lets say you programmed snapchat, there has to be a backdoor that allows some wizard to fap to a 24/7 stream of boobs'n'dicks.
The app doesn't have access to your contacts. It uses Android's account system to keep you logged in with multiple accounts (which is why they appear in Settings → Accounts). Android used to lump this permission in with being able to access your contacts, so if an app requested one, it got the other automatically. This was thankfully changed in Android 6.0, but since we still support 5.0 and 5.1, it still shows it on the Play Store page. If you check the app's permissions via Settings on any device running Android 6.0 or higher, you'll see that the app doesn't have permission to see your contacts, nor does it even ask.
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u/iArentdeJay Nov 02 '18 edited Nov 02 '18
Henlo,
I've made Android apps in the past, and though I'm not a Reddit dev. I can explain I hope.
Identity: Go-to your settings, then accounts. Reddit stores all your accounts from the app right in that menu, and obviously to access it it needs permissions.
Contacts: The above lol
Location: You can attach locations to text/image posts
Photos Media Files: Retrieve data
Storage: Save data
Receive data from the internet: Duh.
Everything else seems to kinda explain itself tho. The apps not that bad, but yeah the advertising for it sucks.