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Seems like #Cheogram went the route of just pretending they upload the contact list to satisfy Google Play requirements.¹

I get why they are doing this. I've contemplated doing this myself but I’m absolutely not convinced that pretending your app is worse than it is is the right strategy here. Especially because the overwhelming majority of our users are not following us on social media and thus don’t have the context for why we would do this.

¹: https://blog.jmp.chat/b/march-newsletter-2024

#cheogram
in reply to Daniel Gultsch

jannic
jannic
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perhaps you can get away with wording like "the contact list gets uploaded only if you press the upload contact list button", and have such a button, permanently disabled?
in reply to Daniel Gultsch

Fran
Fran
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Google is not interested in a battle between local (privacy) vs cloud (all your data are belong to us) paradigms, so they are forcing you to take a side without debate. At least from the mainstream user perspective, who is not interested in your implementation, but may be sensitive to the way you announce you handle their data.
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