Update the Free flavor Guide > Permissions. https://redmine.stoutner.com/issues/397

[PrivacyBrowserAndroid.git] / app / src / free / assets / en / about_permissions_light.html

diff --git a/app/src/free/assets/en/about_permissions_light.html b/app/src/free/assets/en/about_permissions_light.html
index 222a75a4e8dc03bb6123bc3c62fd8716ca56e4fd..a788cee87609ab3995b2f0ef54000f09c3c62f60 100644 (file)
--- a/app/src/free/assets/en/about_permissions_light.html
+++ b/app/src/free/assets/en/about_permissions_light.html
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--
-  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>.
 
@@ -46,13 +46,8 @@
         <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>
-
-        <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>
@@ -61,9 +56,9 @@
 
         <h3>Prevent phone from sleeping</h3>
         <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>
+        <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>