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Re:When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed ... by jeroenhd on Saturday July 08, 2023 @12:27PM (#36645921)
I found this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28096873

Looks like Privacy Guard was dropped because the rewrite wasn't worth the effort.

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Re:When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed ... by scrps on Saturday July 08, 2023 @12:34PM (#36646020)
Thanks for that. Indeed, doesn't sound worth the effort to pursue it if google was mostly going in the same direction anyway.
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Re:When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed ... by luca020400 on Saturday July 08, 2023 @01:59PM (#36646957)
Thanks for digging it up.

Sometimes I can't comprehend how people come up with that stuff when it was already publicly explained how/why it happened :/

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