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Re:Don't Download Apps by raw_anon_1111 on Saturday November 29, 2025 @01:03AM (#46085476)
A website Can easily deduce your phone model based on the browser agent attribute which tells the operating system and the screen resolution with a fair degree of certainty, an app can’t get your phone number, it can get your GPS with your permission. But so can a web page with your permission. There is a standard JavaScript API for it. Contacts are also gated by permissions.

And there is a Contact Picker API for browsers

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Contact_Pic...

Re:Don't Download Apps by ranger_danger on Saturday November 29, 2025 @11:02AM (#46088532)
> an app can’t get your phone number

Apps can absolutely get your phone number:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2480288/programmatically...