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> Also considering they're asking for a permission for a protocol that was shut down 7 years ago, the framework must be quite old. Android permissions were less granular back then.

That’s not how PlayStore permissions work. You have to target a certain Android version to release update apps and that version dictates how permissions work. You can’t get around those requirements by using an old framework.




Yeah, but old framework needed one permission that split into 3. Now it asks for all 3 permissions because they didn't hold to think that they only need 2 of them, and even those not always.


Ah of course, I didn't think about that.




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