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An app that could be a website and wants a huge intrusive set of permissions? So just like every corporate social media thing ever.
"Version 47.0.0"? LOL
Producing a working-enough vibe coded app takes many iterations.
Legitimate criticism aside, I found it funny they underlined "receive data from internet" among the other scary permissions.
That's the one thing a news app presumably should be doing
I'm sorry, but it controls vibration??? Does it make your phone into a sex toy!?
It was a feature specifically requested by Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski for their government airplane sexy times. And the developer forgot to remove it.
NOPE
Are you surprised
"What are we? China?"
Why do they pretend they didn't create mass surveillance and data collection.