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I was about to install it, but then didn't because of all the access rights it wants. Why does it need my called id and information on who I call?

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If you try to install the app, does it actually list those permissions? Or are they just listed on the Play Store listing?

We think there's a bug that's hitting some folks on Play Store that's related to an old manifest from our Beta 9 months ago... but we don't require those permissions anymore. Or at least we shouldn't. If you do see something when you actually try to download it, could you reach out to grasshopper-support@google.com? We're trying to find instances of this occurring and trying to convince the Play Store team it needs to be fixed :-/

I got the notification for those permissions on play.google.com. If I download via the app store app on the phone, no such permissions are mentioned.

Thanks for verifying. Just got off the phone with the Play Store support folks. Apparently it's the Play Store policy on play.google.com to list every permission you've ever asked for forever. We pushed a build many moons ago while we were in beta that asked for permissions by accident, but fixed it very quickly. We no longer ask for those permissions.

This isn't a great experience for us or other developers, so I'm escalating internally. Thanks again for the report.

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