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Re:A list of all Android permissions by qmarchi on Monday October 03, 2016 @12:09AM (#12625478)
Can you pull the list of apps that didn't match a specific filter? I'm curious to know what apps dont use permission.INTERNET
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Re:A list of all Android permissions by smilliken on Monday October 03, 2016 @12:26AM (#12625515)
There's 126k android apps we have without that permission.

Here's the top 250:

https://mixrank.com/playstore/apps?expiration=2016-11-03&pag...

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Re:A list of all Android permissions by EnigmaticLion on Monday October 03, 2016 @01:09AM (#12625609)
Maybe i misunderstand what permission.INTERNET permission means, but i fail to see how Google Play Games is not using the internet.
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Re:A list of all Android permissions by smilliken on Monday October 03, 2016 @01:48AM (#12625671)
See digi_owl's comment. In addition to that, Google Play Games does inter-process communication with Google Play Services which essentially has unfettered permissions.
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