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Snikket

As Snikket is still not available on the #Google Play Store, we've published a longer blog post about the situation, how to work around it using #FDroid, and the long path of stupid Google review responses that led us here.

snikket.org/blog/snikket-googl

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@snikket_im sounds like a wee nightmare dealing with them! Thank you for the work that makes Snikket one of the most user-friendly free software apps out there

Daniel Gultsch

@snikket_im very minor clarification: Google had accepted the version that reinstated the contact permission. This was live for a couple of days/weeks until they suddenly changed their mind. They didn't just outright rejected the update. gultsch.social/@daniel/1120841

Interesting that you still had contact list integration soft disabled. That confirms that Google believes contact permission == uploads data. Considering how Google makes money that kinda makes sense I guess...

phryk 🏴

@snikket_im Jeebus, that's fucking awful and entirely on-point for Google.

I wish we had a properly supported FOSS OS for mobile devices, the situation without something like that just seems completely untenable. :/

Cj

@snikket_im weird world to assume if you have access to some data you must be uploading it. But I guess Google is projecting

Cj

@snikket_im Deja vu. It's a shame Google is like this, but F-Droid is a better home anyway

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@Cj

I get almost all the Apps I use from fdroid - apart from Banking and that sort.

But not being in Play store puts a significant entry barrier in place for 99% of the people...

@snikket_im

Ben Virgilio

@snikket_im par for the course for Google's ecosystem. 😔

calvin, ","

@snikket_im surprised google was anal about the privacy policy part, apple was fine with a page that just said “My application does not collect user data” (though it was confusing to figure out I needed that - the whole set of requirements it’s a bit ambiguous for open source clients of arbitrary servers)

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