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Re:Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messenge... by ISO-morphism on Monday April 19, 2021 @01:24PM (#26865457)
> v11.23.3.36

v11.25.0.29 Beta for me

> in house permission request

That's what I had feared. I'd expand the scope of "the system" to include Play store rules.

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Re:Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messenge... by MrDresden on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @07:56AM (#26873380)
It would change the ecosystem, for the better, if Google would uphold and enforce their policies as fiercly as Apple does. It would surely reduce the amount dark pattern predatory apps on the market place, and overall just pull the quality up a few notches.

Why they haven't done so already is a mystery to me.

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