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Since we've bumped up to API level 33 since last release we need to be explicit about including/excluding `permission.AD_ID` permission. The `play-services-measurement` dependency (~2019 release) requests the `permission.AD_ID` which gets merged into the manifest generated during build that we submit to Play Store console. This permission is only necessary if we need to access the advertising ID of the device (which we don't), and can safely be removed. Here's the relevant snippet from the docs explaining how to prevent the `AD_ID` permission from being merged: https://developers.google.com/android/reference/com/google/android/gms/ads/identifier/AdvertisingIdClient.Info#getId()

Since we've bumped up to API level 33 since last release we need to be explicit about including/excluding `permission.AD_ID` permission. The `play-services-measurement` dependency (~2019 release) requests the `permission.AD_ID` which gets merged into the manifest generated during build that we submit to Play Store console. This permission is only necessary if we need to access the advertising ID of the device (which we don't), and can safely be removed. Here's the relevant snippet from the docs explaining how to prevent the `AD_ID` permission from being merged: {F469174} https://developers.google.com/android/reference/com/google/android/gms/ads/identifier/AdvertisingIdClient.Info#getId()

Since we've bumped up to API level 33 since last release we need to be explicit about including/excluding `permission.AD_ID` permission. The `play-services-measurement` dependency (~2019 release) requests the `permission.AD_ID` which gets merged into the manifest generated during build that we submit to Play Store console. This permission is only necessary if we need to access the advertising ID of the device (which we don't), and can safely be removed. Here's the relevant snippet from the docs explaining how to prevent the `AD_ID` permission from being merged: {F469174} https://developers.google.com/android/reference/com/google/android/gms/ads/identifier/AdvertisingIdClient.Info#getId()