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You can replace your calculator, as well as your clock, contacts, record, translate, and more pretty easily. It's well designed, and it's FOSS!
You can also use this calculator app, as well as camera, recorder, gallery, dialer, text messages, and more. Also well designed and also FOSS
They want your equations on the off chance you accidentally solve one of the Millenia Prize problems.
It could happen if you hit just the right sequence of buttons on a pocket calculator!!
The right sequence of buttons on any calculator is 5318008. That was determined shortly after the invention of the pocket calculator.
In fairness, I've had to write a privacy policy due to store restrictions. It boiled down to "everything stays on your phone. I don't collect your data, I don't want your data, I don't even have a backend server that could be collecting your data. If you find my app sending telemetry of any kind, please tell me immediately because that should not be happening"
That being said, this doesn't exactly inspire confidence
And nothing at all inspires more people confidence so that's why they need the policies. It's not possible to satisfy this
I've published a simillar app to the play store (a calculator for keeping track of your stats in a game) and it got denied because it had no privacy policy, and I had to add one. Maybe that's why they need to include it?
I would believe that but I'm pretty sure this is the default Google calculator. It looks like the same one that's on my Pixel. And when I click on the privacy policy thing it takes me to Google's privacy policy so who knows what the calculator is doing.
Then perhaps it's because Google should follow their own rules? I mean, I still think it's dumb to have a privacy policy on a calculator, but if that's what they ask from other devs maybe they do this to look good?
Otherwise, getting tracked by a calculator is really a low 😅
Yeah I really hope this is just them following the rules and instead of putting in the work hours for their lawyers to make a privacy policy for their calculator they just have a standard one they use and not them using the calculator to gather data. But it is Google so I wouldn't be surprised.
My calc app also has its privacy policy there. It says
OpenCalc does not collect any user data.
How dare they
Looks fake as fuck, My calculator app doesn't need any permission
In normal Android, I don't think internet access counts as a permission, nor does basic data collection.
Indeed
Mine just shows this on the store
Still
The network access I guess it's for the currency conversion, but the rest is pretty standard stuff for haptic feedback and memory management.
Nothing strange there at least for me
Mine does... 
Congratulations? If you use anything beyond stock apps it means you downloaded it, and accepted the privacy policy for it. Even with automatic updates, you logged in and accepted the policy as well. You don't want it? Erase the app. Freeze it, don't use it, whatever.
What's worse is that you don't even show the permission menu, you just show a notification.
Do what you want, but take at least responsibility for what you accept
That the stock app from my phone. Since a year the manufacturer started to update stock apps and they started to ask more and more permissions. It reached levels so bad that I am looking at the fairphones but I don't have the money yet. Maybe in a few months or a year. You are very agressive, I hope you fine and if you go thru hard time, keep the head up it will be better later.
I pay 5,99 a year for glasswire and cut all apps internet access unless necessary, browsers and such.
I'd pay 5.99 for Glasswire
Then if they want me to pay every year for the same product I already bought they can shove their glass wire up their sphincter
It is a service to be fair, saves me setting up something similar myself.
I am generally against subscriptions also but it is so small that what I would pay in a one off is unlikely to ever be paid by me.
Gotta love that internet access is implicitly provided in Android now /s
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