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I think they should have separated permissions that could compromise privacy / security from less important permissions, and grouped them by potential impact.
by sswam 16y ago
I think they should have separated permissions that could compromise privacy / security from less important permissions, and grouped them by potential impact. Also the user should me able to say "um, no I won't allow you to read the phone state". As it is, the apps are in control, not the user. It is extremely difficult to effectively change the range of permissions now, with such a large body of existing apps.
- nitrogen 16y agoI don't think it would be extremely difficult; just phase in additional permissions with better granularity. Additionally, add an "ask me every time" permission that pauses the application and displays a confirmation dialog for each request, allowing the user to always accept or reject future requests made by that particular line of code.
- FooBarWidget 16y ago"Ask me every time" would just lead to people click "Yes" every time just like on Windows.
- nitrogen 16y agoPerhaps just "Ask me later" when installing, then a single prompt the first time the app uses a particular permission?