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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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New Advertisement and Internet connection permissions for Simple SMS Messenger on Google Play Store... (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (9 children)

why would you want or need a separate SMS/MMS application on your phone in the first place?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 10 months ago (1 children)

            
              You don't like the Google app
You don't want to use Google apps out of principle
You're using a version of Android where Google apps are not installed by default, so you need to install something

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Well yeah, I didn't consider those points, especially the last with android distros not all come with gapps.

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