Do not require contacts permission / drop that requirement as it scares users

[rugk]

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Feature request

Which Nextcloud Version are you currently using: 29

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I tried to convince app maintainers to use this app, like in https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/issues/7281

Unfortunately, the reply in https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/issues/7281#issuecomment-2213066460 was:

Signing in with the app requires adding the "read contacts" permission to AntennaPod. Users were concerned about that, so we decided against using it. See https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/issues/6088

They have thus decided against the integration of this lib, which is sad.

Describe the solution you'd like Can you somehow just get rid of this permission? Even if it is optional, some users apparently dig there and complain because of that…

Describe alternatives you've considered I know none…

Obviously not using the lib, but that is sad.

Additional context May be solved(?) in or is at least related to https://github.com/nextcloud/Android-SingleSignOn/issues/49

[tobiasKaminsky]

There is no contacts needed. Only accounts, which is needed to display NC's accounts.

[rugk]

Yes, but AFAIK the issue is Android (or Google Play) shows this as the "contacts" permission to the user, which may scare them, as explained…

[tobiasKaminsky]

Totally understandable. But how can we change this? Write a text snippet, so that every app can show it to user in "details"? I fear no one will read it…