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Re:Google is hurting new apps that have less users than comp... by cosmic_cheese on Friday May 02, 2025 @11:43PM (#43876711)
There’s a few apps where I want to grant broad permissions from the outset, but generally that’s not what I want, especially when it comes to photos, contacts, etc. In most cases there’s no benefit whatsoever to granting e.g. access to my entire photo library and it seriously irritates me to see apps insist on said access.

In fact if I had my way, I’d never see a prompt and permissions would default to “only selected” (collections) and “no access” (location, wifi, etc), with the handful of exceptions getting having access granted manually.

Re:Google is hurting new apps that have less users than comp... by stavros on Saturday May 03, 2025 @09:13AM (#43878841)
I gave Telegram access to only a few photos, and it pops up the "give me more access" dialog EVERY SINGLE TIME I open it. Not when I want to send a photo, every time I open the app!