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Re:Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth by fastest963 on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @12:56PM (#29406890)
What's stopping them from just complaining when you have no SMS or contacts? They would just show a new dialog saying "Give us the real permissions".
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Re:Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth by pjerem on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @01:02PM (#29406967)
Yeah but that’s a legitimate GFY situation where you would infuriately delete the application.
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Re:Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth by stordoff on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @02:13PM (#29407871)
Assuming it's a built-in iOS/Android feature, hopefully app review would catch apps trying to circumvent the fake permissions, and the risk of blocking real users would probably discourage them (I almost never use SMS unless it's for a verification code, and I have no reason to keep those messages).
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Re:Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth by sudosysgen on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @01:05PM (#29406999)
Then you get an app that can generate fakes. Seems very fun to make
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