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Zynga completely abused the product. I started getting requests to give them more rights on facebook, which I solved my signing in with my email - then they started to send me push messages about weird things - I've heard they even asked for read/write sms rights on Android devices. I can only see it one way - Zynga might make cool games, but they are hardcore abusing regular people - also non-techinal people unlike us, that does not realize the outcome of granting these priveledges.


The SMS permissions on Android are for an alternative payment system via SMS. It's in the app description on Google Play.

Edit: Looks like they've since removed the permission and text related to it. shrug




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