“We will sell you this microwave under the following conditions”

Re:“We will sell you this microwave under the following cond... by qwerta on Sunday October 12, 2014 @02:36PM (#8446148)

I dont install app which requests excessive permission. My Lenovo phone has application firewall, everything is blocked, except two white listed apps. My /etc/hosts has 3000 lines...

It is not that hard...

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Re:“We will sell you this microwave under the following cond... by jbinto on Sunday October 12, 2014 @03:52PM (#8446376)

This reminds me of the infamous HN response to Dropbox's launch 5 years ago:

> you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

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Re:“We will sell you this microwave under the following cond... by qwerta on Monday October 13, 2014 @12:45PM (#8449425)

Why would anyone install flashlight app which requires access to contacts and emails?

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Re:“We will sell you this microwave under the following cond... by optimiz3 on Sunday October 12, 2014 @03:01PM (#8446223)

My /etc/hosts has 3000 lines...

If it wasn't hard more people would be doing it; I think for users, this is hard.

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