Google has just removed #Conversations_im from the Play Store because they think we are uploading the user’s contact list. We don’t.
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Daniel Gultsch (daniel@gultsch.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 13:35:17 UTC Daniel Gultsch - Santiago repeated this.
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Daniel Gultsch (daniel@gultsch.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 13:35:31 UTC Daniel Gultsch To be clear: They didn’t just reject an update. They outright removed the app entirely. Otherwise my plan B would have been to remove the contacts permission which is used to display the name and profile picture locally if the XMPP address matches an entry in the users address book.