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Re:Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone... by threeseed on Saturday November 14, 2015 @02:14AM (#10564828)
Apple started adding location services permissions 5 years ago. Android 6.0 has only just been released.

Whichever way you look at it it's pretty unacceptable that it's taken so long for Android to implement this.

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Re:Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone... by yareally on Saturday November 14, 2015 @03:12AM (#10564922)
> "Apple started adding location services permissions 5 years ago. Android 6.0 has only just been released".

Location permissions have been in Android since the version 1.0 of the API.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.perm...

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Re:Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone... by threeseed on Saturday November 14, 2015 @03:49AM (#10565004)
But that is the permissions that only appear when you download the app from the store.

I am talking about the API permissions e.g. "the dialog box that pops up confirming you want to allow this app to read your location".

That is the point of this whole discussion right ?

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