Re:Android vendors, don’t kill my app
by ecocentrik on Monday January 14, 2019 @12:43PM
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> And the problem has almost never been users blindly revoking permissions, it’s blindly granting permissions.
If I wasn't clear, this is what I meant. Users ignore and accept permissions blindly on install.
> if Android did add a permission to allow an app to do whatever it wants
I'm not suggesting this at all. I'm suggesting that permissions systems, as granulated as they are, only make sense to developers and are mostly ignored by users.
> The problem the parent comment mention isn’t the method of asking for permission, it’s the fact there literally is not a permission.
I agree with the parent comment on this. Some permissions queries should be available on first use, rather than (or in addition to) on install.
If I wasn't clear, this is what I meant. Users ignore and accept permissions blindly on install.
> if Android did add a permission to allow an app to do whatever it wants
I'm not suggesting this at all. I'm suggesting that permissions systems, as granulated as they are, only make sense to developers and are mostly ignored by users.
> The problem the parent comment mention isn’t the method of asking for permission, it’s the fact there literally is not a permission.
I agree with the parent comment on this. Some permissions queries should be available on first use, rather than (or in addition to) on install.