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On Android 6.0, Facebook must ask you for accessing your contacts, location and doing most sensitive stuff. You can deny it those things and the app will keep o
by DCKing 11y ago
On Android 6.0, Facebook must ask you for accessing your contacts, location and doing most sensitive stuff. You can deny it those things and the app will keep on function normally. To their credit, Facebook is a lot quicker to update their app to work with the more restrictive Android 6.0 permission model than others.
Combine that with something like Greenify that will stop the app from doing stuff in the background and killing your battery, and it's actually a better experience than the mobile website. It's just insane on how much you must tame the application to be acceptable to use. Wish Facebook engineers would take note of how bloated and overreaching their app is by default.
- Phlarp 11y agoBloated, overreaching, battery killing and permission hoarding could be used to describe 90% of apps on Play Market.
- DCKing 11y agoI hold the Facebook engineers to a higher standard than the developers of those 90%. In fact I hold them to a higher standard than most engineers.
- qubex 11y agoI hope you mean software engineers. A lot of engineering is life-or-death and intended to potentially last for centuries.
- Phlarp 11y agoThe sad truth is that the 10% that _don't_ do this are the lone wolf / indie devs or small shops focusing on a single app. It's the large corps that _should_ be held to a higher standard but aren't, and take advantage of this fact to data mine the shit out of their customers. For some reason every bank on the planet needs to know my location, send/receive text messages on my behalf and listen to my microphone in order to display a damned account balance.