Software made me loathe my car

Re:Software made me loathe my car by williamchangnpu on Friday August 30, 2019 @04:30AM (#20836780)

Maybe they just want to facilitate you by letting you voice your contact and send message or call your friends by voice. I don't have a car with Android Auto, can you deny the permission?

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Re:Software made me loathe my car by fullstop on Friday August 30, 2019 @07:36AM (#20837593)

I use LineageOS which has something called PrivacyGuard. I can give the app permission to access my contacts but then deny it at the PrivacyGuard level. I'm pretty sure that it just returns an empty contact list in this case.

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Re:Software made me loathe my car by climb_stealth on Friday August 30, 2019 @09:30AM (#20838379)

Interesting, I thought the PrivacyGuard and permissions were the same thing, except that the former gives you more control. I'll try that next time.

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Re:Software made me loathe my car by climb_stealth on Friday August 30, 2019 @09:28AM (#20838357)

Yup, it is probably something like that. It wouldn't start without being granted the permissions though.

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