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For once on HN, the same front page describing the problem has a post with the solution :)

also, beware of Ingress, it is just a miner for your data/social network.

Missing from the list, Ur-Quan Masters!

How does ingress mine my social network? It doesn't ask for any logins and doesn't have any social connections in-game as far as I can tell.

Just checked, and it has permission to read your contacts. That's nasty!

I can't guarantee it's not for anything else but the innocuous reason I can think of for this is the 'recruit agents' invite system (ingress was initially invite-only).

I think it's opened up now, but hopefully they can drop that when/if they ditch the whole recruit agents thing (no idea if they plan to do that).

That means Google (the makers of Ingress) will get access to the list of contacts I have stored in Google Contacts.

I believe I can live with that :-)

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