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Google has, at least, hinted in this direction. Developers should get a clue. Or they will find more junk data in their analytics, as users deploy more spoofing.


There's no incentive to get a clue. Typical users will click through anyway. And, well, if you don't get a clue you get a possibility to spy on your users.

Unless Google will start actively penalizing requesting more permissions than absolutely necessary, nothing will change. And, considering all top market players (including Google themselves) are actually interested in analytics and whatever and not interested in end-user's privacy, it's very unlikely scenario.




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