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Amazon Underground App Permissions - The longest permissions list you will ever see.
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A word for word list from this Amazon page. Application Permissions:

com.amazon.mas.client.install.KICKOFF_INSTALL_com.amazon.mShop.android

Access platform metrics

Call the single sign-on provider

com.amazon.mas.client.CONTENT_PROVIDER_READ_com.amazon.mShop.android

com.amazon.mas.client.install.RECEIVE_INSTALL_STATE_com.amazon.mShop.android

Install packages

Access customer attributes

Access coarse (e.g., Cell-ID, Wi-Fi) location

com.amazon.mas.client.authentication.permission.DEREGISTRATION_BROADCAST_PERMISSION_com.

amazon.mShop.android PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming

Access information about Wi-Fi networks

Manage the list of accounts in the AccountManager

Allows an application to receive messages via Google Cloud Messaging

Receive broadcast intents from in-app purchasing

Access device credentials

Receive updates when Amazon app settings have changed

com.amazon.mShop.android.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE

com.amazon.mas.client.GLOBAL_BROADCAST_com.amazon.mShop.android

Read permission settings

Get notifications of permission changes

Manage regional settings

Record audio

Change Wi-Fi connectivity state

Open network sockets

Install an app update

Read account changes

Read the user's contacts data

Access the flashlight

Access the list of accounts in the Accounts Service

Act as an AccountAuthenticator for the AccountManager

com.amazon.mas.client.CONTENT_PROVIDER_READ

Write to external storage

Access fine (e.g., GPS) location

com.amazon.mas.client.malware.blockedapp.BLOCKED_APP_PROVIDER_WRITE_com.amazon.mShop android

Allows an application to uninstall home screen shortcuts

Access information about networks

Get access to Appstore’s settings

Delete packages

Allows installation of home screen shortcuts

Monitor incoming SMS messages, to record or perform processing on them

Send SMS messages

com.amazon.mas.client.install.CONTENT_PROVIDER_WRITE_com.amazon.mShop.android

Generic permissions access

Allows an application to read device settings

Access to the authentication SDK

com.amazon.mas.client.install.INSTALL_com.amazon.mShop.android

Update configuration values

Access the vibration feature

com.amazon.mShop.android.getui.permission.GetuiService

Access the Amazon video SDK

Request authtokens from the AccountManager

Required to be able to access the camera device

Read from external storage

Change account property

Read only access to device state

Communicate to Google Cloud Messenger (GCM)

hot shizzle

great game but unsure about getting it from here

maybe it's just me, but the fact they give away so much stuff that other people can still sell makes me a little uneasy, they have to be making money some how and are they doing more with the permissions given to make it??? i don't know i guess like all things, great for some not for others, :smiley:

Love this game. So all the in game purchases (additional rifles, etc) are also free?

A free game makes you uneasy? What do you think amazon could do? They already have your bank details from amazon itself. A few permissions won't harm you. If your that worried just install the game and then uninstall the amazon underground client.

I see where your coming from, but if their not doing anything with it then why do they need it? Ill say it again, great for some not for others. I'm not the only one that's a bit sceptical of Amazon's store.

A few permissions won't harm you??

Yeah fair enough but every single app you download need permissions. Facebook and it's messenger being 2 of them..

What they get from it is you installing their App Store.
These offers entice lots of people to their App Store who would have previously stayed with the Google Play Store and never looked at, let alone purchased anything via the Amazon App store.