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ASF GitHub Bot commented on CB-11038:
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Github user alsorokin commented on the issue:

    https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-contacts/pull/149
  
    @videmort are you affected by this issue? Can you show us some repro so we 
are certain that the fix is working?


> Android: Automatically created (nonsense) contacts are retrieved too
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>
>                 Key: CB-11038
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-11038
>             Project: Apache Cordova
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Plugin Contacts
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.0
>         Environment: Android 6 Marshmallow
>            Reporter: Tobias Mücksch
>            Assignee: Alexander Sorokin
>              Labels: triaged
>
> For some reason, Android (or Gmail) creates a contact for each email a user 
> receives (via gmail). *By default those Contacts are hidden in the systems 
> contacts-app.*
> The problem is; the cordova-plugin-contacts retrieves those useless contacts 
> together with the ordinary contacts that are actually of interest; *even if 
> they aren't real contacts and in most cases of literally +no interest+*. 
> Additionally this is different behaviour from the iOS version.
> You can spot these "ghost contacts" when you open your contacts app, click on 
> the settings (top right corner), and then on "Contacts to display" -> 
> "Customize" -> Google -> "My Contacts".
> In my opinion there should be at least an option to filter out specific 
> contacts sources. It's very annoying to have plenty of *+nonsense+* contacts 
> (around 50 in my case). For example I have some contacts in the list for 
> email addresses I have received invoices from or even newsletters.
> Side note: I'm not 100% percent sure where these contacts come from. Either 
> android or the gmail web app.
> *I guess filtering by this attribute should do the trick:*
> [ContactsContract.Contacts.IN_VISIBLE_GROUP|http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/ContactsContract.Contacts.html]
> ??An indicator of whether this contact is supposed to be visible in the UI. 
> "1" if the contact has at least one raw contact that belongs to a visible 
> group; "0" otherwise.??
> Here is someone who describes a similar issue (not development related): [How 
> to filter my google 
> contacts?|http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/43198/how-to-filter-my-google-contacts]



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