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Use Analytics is a big business. As in, people make apps like battery saver or flashlight just so they can get millions of downloads, later track the other app usage and sell data.

Only here, they went little overboard with permissions like a flashlight. Like why the hell one would need it. I can see why other permissions are required though to use some of the app features.



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