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Some apps prefer to declare more permissions than they need because adding more permissions would stop app from autoupdating – user will need to manually confir
by StrLght 10y ago
Some apps prefer to declare more permissions than they need because adding more permissions would stop app from autoupdating – user will need to manually confirm new permission when updating in Google Play. Android 4.X is running on nearly one third of the Android devices and there are apps with old permission model (eg. Snapchat), so that's still a thing in some apps.
I am not defending Meitu and Kaspersky though. Be careful installing new apps and look at apps' permissions.
- crististm 10y agoThe law of unintended consequences is at work here as well :)
- Tepix 10y agoIt can fail both ways: On the one hand you may not install an update because the app wants more permissions than you consider acceptable. On the other hand you may not install the app at all if it asks for too many permissions during the initial install.
- giancarlostoro 10y agoI usually refuse to install apps that ask for the wrong permissions. Some apps literally display static offline content and ask for permissions, while I've installed games that never need any permissions (I guess outside of the basic ones for writing to disk).
- StrLght 10y agoWhile I agree with you I also think that sadly average person doesn't really care about permissions at install time simply because there're lots of them. But app update is different -- there're usually 1-2 permission(s) added with update so there's huge chance that user will notice it and think about why these permissions are needed.