[Android Apps and Games] onehandyapps:
Hahahahah...

If you & your daughter clever enough to understand the full code of a browser, then you will not ask what is "expand status bar" permission. It is fundamental. Clearly you have misconceptions.

So your argument failed at the very beginning. If you ask questions, I can provide answers. But if you decide something, then argue for it, what can I do? Anyway for the record, I provide the following details....

1) Regarding open source build: There is no rule/need that one should use the same open source code for production. Play store version may contain different code.

2) Code: Who understand the full code? Someone. When you ask someone, they say the same answer. Hahaha... Even most of the contributors know only part of the code. Even though someone understand the full code, they can be fooled by (1)

3) Privacy policy: You can't write your own stories in privacy policy. Google will check it, if you publish on play store. You should clearly mention what data you collect and how you will use it. (That's why I asked to read privacy policy of every app.) If anything wrong, they will suspend your app! It is serious, not a game!

4) Personal details: OH BROWSER CANNOT TOUCH YOUR PERSONAL DETAILS, BECAUSE IT HAS NO PERMISSION. That's why I worked hard make OH with no dangerous permission. Also I didn't connect any analytics. You don't/need to know who I am, but the app can't break your privacy. It is designed in such a way. OH doesn't know who is bought full version. It just know full version or not. If you put privacy policy "We don't collect data", then we can't arbitrarily collect and send any of browsing data. Google will catch it & suspend the app even before we publish. Because every time we push an update, Google fully scan & check the app.

5) Payment: I think your real issue is you don't want to pay for app. Nothing is free on earth. If you want free app, your privacy is the price. Think who pay for the hard work? How much you donate for free apps. So you want someone work hard, put investment, then give you free software. Is that practically possible? Even governments can't do that. They need tax. Not everyone is Mr.Linus. If you really want to upgrade OH but avoid Google services, you can flash gapps, upgrade OH, then remove gaps.

6) Normal permissions: These are not worth to care, that's why you can't see these in OH's app info.

* Expand status bar - Double tap hand button to expand the status bar.

* Install shortcuts - Add link shortcut to launcher.

* Billing, License - In app purchase, check paid status

* WiFi state - Download files

* Foreground service - Run a service that clearly shows to users that it running. Unlike background services it clearly run with user acknowledgement. It helps the download to continue, even if the app is cleared from memory. Of course we can stop the service anytime.

- OH can't collect your personal data!

- OH can't collect your browsing data!

It is by design. So ultimate privacy!

Android Q introduce scoped storage. That is an app should have permission to a specific folder, instead of full storage permission. OH is one step ahead. It uses only one file permission at a time for downloads. Also OH doesn't know the real path of that file!

So OH is already years ahead in privacy!

Ever seen this type of app?