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Why is this in privacy? It has like a million unnecessary permissions
Really? Such as?
obviously a weather app couldn't possibly use your location for anything, must be spyware
None of these are used in my other weather app =\
Most of those are optional lol The only ones that aren't are the network ones, and after looking at the source code, it's mostly used for error messages