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Fix incorrect pinned mismatch errors. https://redmine.stoutner.com/issues/591
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-  Copyright © 2016-2018 Soren Stoutner <soren@stoutner.com>.
+  Copyright © 2016-2020 Soren Stoutner <soren@stoutner.com>.
 
   This file is part of Privacy Browser <https://www.stoutner.com/privacy-browser>.
 
         <p><a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html#INSTALL_SHORTCUT">com.android.launcher.permission.INSTALL_SHORTCUT</a></p>
         <p>Required to add shortcuts for websites to the launcher desktop.</p>
 
+        <h3>Read storage</h3>
+        <p><a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission#READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE">android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE</a></p>
+        <p>Required to import settings from public folders. On Android Marshmallow (API 23) and newer, if this permission is denied Privacy Browser can import settings from the app’s folders instead.</p>
+
         <h3>Write storage</h3>
-        <p><a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html#WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"> android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE</a></p>
-        <p>Required to download files to the public download folder.
-            On Android Marshmallow (API 23) and newer, if this permission is denied Privacy Browser will store downloads in the app’s download folder instead.</p>
+        <p><a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html#WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE">android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE</a></p>
+        <p>Required to export settings and download files to the public folders.
+            On Android Marshmallow (API 23) and newer, if this permission is denied Privacy Browser can export settings and store downloads in the app’s folders instead.</p>
 
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         <hr/>
         <br/>
 
         <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>
+            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>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>
+
         <h3>Receive data from Internet</h3>
         <p><a href="http://androidpermissions.com/permission/com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE">com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE</a></p>
         <p>Allows Google to send information directly to the AdView without having to receive a request first (cloud-to-device messaging).</p>
-
-        <h3>Receive data from Internet</h3>
-        <p><a href="https://developers.google.com/cloud-messaging/android/client">com.stoutner.privacybrowser.free.permission.C2D_MESSAGE</a></p>
-        <p>Secures the cloud-to-device messages so that only Privacy Browser Free can receive them.</p>
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