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Re:We became the foremost expert on Google Play Store policy... by nine_k on Thursday October 27, 2022 @05:20PM (#33364205)
What you lose then is the auto-update. You can of course make the app nag about installing a new version when available, but it works much, much worse.
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Re:We became the foremost expert on Google Play Store policy... by lern_too_spel on Thursday October 27, 2022 @05:55PM (#33364564)
The app can auto-update itself without nagging.
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Re:We became the foremost expert on Google Play Store policy... by eropple on Thursday October 27, 2022 @05:57PM (#33364591)
By being granted very broad security permissions that an application shouldn't need on a phone, yes.
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Re:We became the foremost expert on Google Play Store policy... by counttheforks on Thursday October 27, 2022 @07:13PM (#33365294)
Clearly the application does need it, else it wouldn't need the permissions to auto update itself.
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Re:We became the foremost expert on Google Play Store policy... by lern_too_spel on Thursday October 27, 2022 @08:07PM (#33365787)
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.per... doesn't seem overly broad to me. How would you make it more specific?
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