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Re:Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous effort... by wtmt on Thursday August 27, 2020 @12:01PM (#24294984)
>> the way android apps just demand permisions for everything making the security benefit of permissions largely pointless.

> That hasn't been the case for a pretty long time. Now the permissions are quite granular and you can accept and refuse specific one at any time.

This is technically a correct answer, but I've seen the bad habit of asking for many permissions (and sometimes refusing to work without) being more common on Android. An example is a bank's app that will refuse to launch (or I mean, provide any meaningful information/experience) unless location permission is given (this is when giving the permission means an "always allow") and unless it's connected to a cellular data network (not WiFi). On iOS, the app is better behaved and will work with some useful functionality when certain permissions are denied.

Re:Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous effort... by nitrogen on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:41PM (#24298395)
This could be due to an overly aggressive anti-fraud library/service like ThreatMetrix (I don't know if they do these things, they're just the only example I know).
Re:Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous effort... by stjohnswarts on Friday August 28, 2020 @08:19PM (#24311989)
If they refuse to run without permissions that make sense to me then they get tossed. You don't need my location for me to play a solo platformer.