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Re:Apple's best product is now privacy by snaky on Friday September 14, 2018 @09:51PM (#17992504)
XPrivacy is not about blocking, it's about faking.

PrivacyGuard in LineageOS is about blocking.

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Re:Apple's best product is now privacy by scarface74 on Friday September 14, 2018 @10:48PM (#17992693)
How is “faking” it better than just not allowing it all? iOS Developers have had to handle being denied permissions gracefully since 2008.
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Re:Apple's best product is now privacy by DrJaws on Friday September 14, 2018 @11:46PM (#17992876)
some apps don't work if the permissions are blocked. With xprivacy you can tell them

My phone number is 000 000 000 and my email is [email protected]

and they work fine then

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Re:Apple's best product is now privacy by scarface74 on Saturday September 15, 2018 @12:20AM (#17992962)
And iOS doesn’t need that bandaid. App developers have been developing with the expectation that their apps could be denied permissions they request since day one.
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Re:Apple's best product is now privacy by drdaeman on Saturday September 15, 2018 @10:56AM (#17994492)
Except for stuff that iOS doesn't ask and even implement a permission for. Like UIDevice.identifierForVendor.
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