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These are the privacy permissions that you grant for Meta's new twitter competitor (yiffit.net)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I don't know about this particular app, but if I remember right, for a while blocking these requests would actually cause the app to break completely. I'm sure it had nothing to do with the permissions being needed but primarily just to punish people who didn't give them access to their data.