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Re:Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your... by JoshMnem on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @08:07PM (#10748740)
It isn't a fanboy war. The Android permission system is terrible, and users cannot get a sense of what apps are able to do. I've used Android since Galaxy I. I've never used an iPhone.
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Re:Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your... by Tloewald on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @09:25PM (#10749082)
Given that the number of users for whom it's "fixed" rounds to 0 (and the proportion of apps targeting the v6 SDK probably also rounds to 0, so even if you are running Marshmallow it won't work for the vast majority of apps) I think that specifying that it's "fixed" is a tad overstated.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/android-6-0-marshmall...

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Re:Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your... by notatoad on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @09:16PM (#10749054)
As the parent comment says, this is now fixed. Android has moved to an iOS style permissions system in 6.0
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Re:Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your... by JoshMnem on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @10:39PM (#10749344)
It isn't fixed on my phone, and we've already suffered through years of it.
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Re:Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your... by y4mi on Thursday December 17, 2015 @06:09AM (#10750762)
root your phone and install a permission manager. or use cyanogenmod and enable the built-in.
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Re:Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your... by JoshMnem on Thursday December 17, 2015 @06:50PM (#10755597)
I would like to do that, but I don't want to risk turning my phone into a brick just to get basic root permissions.
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Re:Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your... by tedks on Saturday December 19, 2015 @01:18AM (#10762837)
Well, fortune favours the bold. You can take that risk or you can be cattle for all the apps that want you to actually watch the ads they support themselves with. Make your choice.
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Re:Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your... by sangnoir on Thursday December 17, 2015 @06:30AM (#10750840)
The quickest solution to your years of suffering would be getting an iPhone.
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Re:Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your... by JoshMnem on Thursday December 17, 2015 @06:48PM (#10755587)
I'd prefer a Free software OS that gives me root access.
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