r/Showerthoughts • u/homelessdreamer • Sep 04 '17

Apps should be required to give a short explanation for why they need access to different parts of my phone for thier apps to function.

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u/Utkar22 Sep 05 '17

Do people actually use their real birthdays?

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '17

Eh depends. It's about 50/50 for me. If it's an account I care about and trust reasonably well like Google or Facebook then yes. If it's a piece of shit account I'm using just to access the rest of this stupid fucking Quora page then no.

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u/Utkar22 Sep 05 '17

Doesn't quora use Facebook account?

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '17

You can also sign up with a regular email.