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Yeah, it would be awesome if they would release an android update that allowed you to revoke and limit application permissions. http://android-developers.blogs

• dredmorbius 11y ago
  As I understand it, that puts the onus fully on application developers, whom users have to trust. That's precisely the current problem.
  • strcat 11y ago
    No, it does not. Dangerous permission can be toggled off for all apps now. For apps on the new API level, they can no longer obtain dangerous permissions at install time. They have to trigger an OS-level prompt for the permission. They're supposed to explain why they need it before triggering the OS prompt and many apps did it poorly by adding an extra, meaningless prompt before the real one. This was't done for the old API level because it would cause crashes for permissions where data can't feasibly be faked and the user would have no indication that fake/empty data was being used if it was the default.
    • dredmorbius 11y ago
      For Marshmallow. Which 60% of current Android users don't have and will never have until they retire their current devices. Which is why Google needs to fucking fix this retrospectively.