Re:Amazon blocks long-running FireTV capability, Breaking ap...
by barnabee on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @07:11AM
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> I tend to disagree, at least for many purposes. In the world of mega-apps (WeChat, Facebook, etc), do you really want these apps to be able to ask for or even require permissions like this?
Not really… I want to ban or break up/massively curtail the apps and/or their business models and aggressively police them so that that isn't a thing…
In an older, kinder, gentler era of computing, if I granted a permission to an app [0], it was probably doing something with that permission that I wanted. Nowadays, not so much — apps are generally actively hostile to the user, and even apps that are friendly are frequently purchased by more or less malicious companies that turn them into malware.
[0] Yeah right. There were no permissions. And apps were mostly well behaved because they had no way to call home to the mothership.