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When logging in with a Github account this application requests Read and Write permission to the following:

Private email address

Private profile information

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Looks like a cool application but I have no idea why you would need write access to any of the above.

This is totally an unintended consequence of the Github Oauth 2.0 setup. And I'm working on changing the authentication setup to avoid this. Since we really only need to read the username and email address.

There's an open issue for it, and I'll try to get to it in the next week.

https://github.com/rysolv/rysolv/issues/15

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