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Are people really that stupid to give some mobile app company access to their contact list? On iPhone you have to explicitly give permission, I presume on Andro
by coldcode 5y ago
Are people really that stupid to give some mobile app company access to their contact list? On iPhone you have to explicitly give permission, I presume on Android as well. I find that hard to believe everyone is doing it.
- FabianBeiner 5y agoThat was what made Clubhouse so famous: "After registering, the clubhouse app asks for access to your address book. This must be granted if you want to invite friends."
- jbverschoor 5y agoI have no idea how that went through the Apple checks
- codetrotter 5y agoIt must be granted to invite friends but you can deny it access and still use Clubhouse, just that until you grant access you can’t invite others.
- codetrotter 5y agoActually now that I look into it again, it looks like since the middle of March of this year it's even possible to invite others without sharing your phonebook. https://www.blogher.com/social-media/clubhouse-invite-without-sharing-contacts-17723/ https://www.blogher.com/social-media/clubhouse-invite-withou... https://www.gizchina.com/2021/03/16/clubhouse-new-update-users-can-now-invite-friends-without-opening-their-contacts/ https://www.gizchina.com/2021/03/16/clubhouse-new-update-use...
- CapitalistCartr 5y agoEveryone doesn't have to. If one person with your number gives up their contact list, they have yours. I'd guess about 10-12% of the populace would have to cooperate.
- hdjjhhvvhga 5y agoMany apps will refuse to work if you don't allow access to your contacts, so people just give in and allow it. Google is the biggest abuser in this area just grabbing all your contacts and linking them to your Google account once you add any Google account (like Gmail or Youtube) to your Android device.
- user-the-name 5y agoI do not think you are allowed on the Apple App Store if you do that.
- capableweb 5y agoMaybe not for smaller apps but apps with large user bases are under different rules than the rest.
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- user-the-name 5y agoI work for a fairly large app and that certainly is not the case for us.
- alisonkisk 5y agoWhat are you talking about?
- flemhans 5y agoIt's extremely annoying to add a number to Telegram without adding it as a contact first, and allowing Telegram access to the contact list.
- noxer 5y agoWhats the point of that? You dont need to exchange phone numbers for telegram just the @username and only one side needs to know the others username. And once you have a chat with someone both can share their own contact directly in the chat with 2 clicks and add it with 2 clicks as well. (which is still rather useless because there is no real benefit from adding someone as contact. But I guess if you want to store number then this is easy)
- sneak 5y agoYes.
- alpaca128 5y agoAfaik WhatsApp (on Android at least) requires you giving access to your contacts. So roughly speaking a huge chunk, probably the majority, of smartphone users shared their contact list to at least one company, which strictly speaking might not even be legal in many cases. After all that's how WhatsApp populates its contact list, it looks which users have each other's phone numbers. That way it doesn't need a user login and friend/contact requests, but in return you give up your privacy.
- wngr 5y agoNot true. It'll work without, it's just very inconvenient.
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- patja 5y agoBased on the popularity of WhatsApp, yes most people don't give it a second thought.
- Bjartr 5y agoYes, constantly.
- nemothekid 5y ago>Are people really that stupid to give some mobile app company access to their contact list? Almost every social media startup in the last 15 years was bootstrapped this way.
- ipaddr 5y agoI keep no contacts on my phone and gladly give that info away. I'm surprised people don't use multiple phones for privacy.
- eclipxe 5y agoMost people don’t care about privacy.