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   Daniel Gultsch (daniel@gultsch.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 18:19:17 JST Daniel Gultsch

   Google has just removed #Conversations_im from the Play Store because they think we are uploading the user’s contact list. We don’t.

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     Daniel Gultsch (daniel@gultsch.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 21:07:17 JST Daniel Gultsch

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     To be clear: They didn’t just reject an update. They outright removed the app entirely. Otherwise my plan B would have been to remove the contacts permission which is used to display the name and profile picture locally if the XMPP address matches an entry in the users address book.

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     ~n (nblr@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 18:23:21 JST ~n

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     @daniel And whatsapp and signal are the only ones allowed to do that? 🤔

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     Ténno Seremél’ (tennoseremel@lor.sh)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 18:23:25 JST Ténno Seremél’

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     @daniel This is starting to look quite intentional, TBH.

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     Dave (anathem@toot.kif.rocks)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 18:23:28 JST Dave

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     @daniel Sooo... they've been consequent and removed WhatsApp from the Play Store, too?

     They're treating all apps the same, right?

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     Bubu :progress_pride: (☎7002) (bubu@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 18:23:32 JST Bubu :progress_pride: (☎7002)

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     • Arthur Schiwon 🌍

     @blizzz @daniel Google has been doing this since before the AI hype. Maybe they now got more efficient at making stupid decisions? :D

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     Arthur Schiwon 🌍 (blizzz@layer8.space)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 18:23:41 JST Arthur Schiwon 🌍

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     @daniel Seeing such things nowadays my reflex thought is that some AI is hallucinating things and its results are committed without further ado.