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- Copyright © 2016-2018 Soren Stoutner <soren@stoutner.com>.
+ Copyright © 2016-2019 Soren Stoutner <soren@stoutner.com>.
This file is part of Privacy Browser <https://www.stoutner.com/privacy-browser>.
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<p>In addition, Privacy Browser Free displays ads from Google’s AdMob network using the Firebase backend.
- For the free flavor, Firebase adds the following permissions even though they are not listed in the manifest file.</p>
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- <h3>Read phone status and identity</h3>
- <p><a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission#read_phone_state">android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE</a></p>
- <p>Allows the ads to access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls,
- and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device. This is a dangerous permission and requires the user to explicitly allow it on Android Marshmallow (API 23) or newer.
- In my testing I have not seen ads attempt to request or use this permission.</p>
+ For the free flavor, Firebase adds the following permissions even though they are not listed in the source code
+ <a href="https://git.stoutner.com/?p=PrivacyBrowser.git;a=blob;f=app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml;hb=HEAD">manifest file</a>.</p>
<h3>View network connections</h3>
<p><a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html#ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE">android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE</a></p>
<p><a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html#WAKE_LOCK">android.permission.WAKE_LOCK</a></p>
<p>Allows the ads to keep the processor from sleeping and the screen from dimming, although in my testing I don’t think the ads actually do this.</p>
- <h3>Track installs from ads</h3>
+ <h3>Play Install Referrer API</h3>
<p><a href="https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/11/google-play-referrer-api-track-and.html">com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE</a></p>
<p>Allows other apps to tell if their installation was launched from an ad in Privacy Browser Free.</p>