(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google, with no particular insight into Android.) > No, I'm not, but clearly

(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google, with no particular insight into Android.) > No, I'm not, but clearly old-style permissions could have been reimplemented as forwarding calls to a new-style API that returned blank data if the user chose blank data for that app's permission, just as privacy mods for rooted phones have already done. Not only is this clearly possible, and a good idea, but it is also pretty much exactly how Android implements it. If you don't use the new API, you'll just get blank data. I've never used the app you're talking about, but it sounds buggy to me.