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Re:Google will allow users to sideload Android apps without ... by Groxx on Friday November 14, 2025 @12:37AM (#45924192)
I really think all permissions systems need what we had back in xposed/appops days:

Permissions should ~always be "accept (with optional filters)", "deny", and "lie". If the game wants contacts access and won't take no for an answer, I should be able to feed it a lie: empty and/or fake and/or sandboxed data. It's my phone and my data, not the app's.

We had it over a decade ago, xposed supported filtered and fake data for many permissions. It's strictly user-hostile that Android itself doesn't have this capability.

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