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Everyone knows all the apps on your phone
Until a few years ago, any app you installed on an Android device could see all other apps on your phone without your permission.
This reminded me of that ppt from Blume Ventures - the one that blue tick twitter accounts living in certain pin codes of Bengaluru passionately discuss amongst themselves for a week every year. Play Store grants a "temporary exception" to include this permission if apps have “a verifiable core purpose facilitating financial-transactions involving financially regulated instruments”. Airtel Thanks, Blinkit, Byju’s, MyGate, Dream11, Flipkart, HDFC Mobile, Healthify, INDmoney, MyJio, Paytm, PaisaBazaar, ShareChat, Unacademy, Vedantu, Zepto
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