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Re:I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report by hellofunk on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @09:02AM (#16966660)
No, only Android 6 and later has provided proper user permissions [0] :

> You declare that your app needs a permission by listing the permission in the app manifest and then requesting that the user approve each permission at runtime (on Android 6.0 and higher).

> Beginning with Android 6.0 (API level 23), users can revoke permissions from any app at any time

[0] https://developer.android.com/training/permissions/requestin...

Re:I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report by efdee on Saturday May 05, 2018 @06:31AM (#17001211)
It got better in Android 6.0 but it was as described long before that.