The Console's Local processing options are Media transcoding, Importing/exporting and Other,
not the two-entry list the help page implies, so record which one this app takes and why the
other two are misdeclarations rather than near-misses:
- Media transcoding is converting media into a different format; the scan writes no media file
at all, it only reads photos to hash and compare them.
- Importing/exporting is moving files in or out of the app; the app's only write is its own
private hash index, which no other app ever sees - that is also what keeps "nothing leaves
the device" true.
- Other is described by Play as "specifically user-initiated work and not for regular system or
server-initiated tasks", which is exactly a scan the user taps Start scan for.
Worth spelling out because a use case that does not match the app is a misdeclaration, and the
description and the accompanying video have to support whichever option is chosen: "reads the
photo library and writes a small local index of file hashes" only fits Other.
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