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Re:Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from A... by Groxx on Sunday March 25, 2018 @08:21PM (#16675509)
"Give app X direct access to the camera, microphone, and all my photos literally any time it pleases" and "use this camera app I trust instead" are very, very different desires.

Usually I hate the in-app cameras, because they're not optimized for my device. They're usually slower, have no flash control, no zoom, no manual exposure options, etc. I'd almost always prefer to use a dedicated camera app instead.

Because of this permissions decision, if an app wants to bake in a camera thing (nearly every app that might ever touch the camera does, even if e.g. only for a QR code reader or something), I can no longer choose. The app can't open my camera app when it makes sense.

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