This is not about API vs. not API. It's about hiding critical APIs among benign APIs and training users to click "Accept" on a regular basis. This is a dark pat

This is not about API vs. not API. It's about hiding critical APIs among benign APIs and training users to click "Accept" on a regular basis. This is a dark pattern if there ever was one, perhaps the darkest of all. It's about the company formerly led by Eric "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" Schmidt. It's about an ecosystem that requires you to hand out a copy of the key to your apartment to strangers in exchange of minor services on a regular basis, and makes it really easy to do so. I haven't used Android in a while, but here's a quick search that fits my Android experience of yesteryear. Almost every app I installed asked for this overreaching kind of permissions. Transcript with a little easter egg. Glympse needs access to * Identity * Calendar * Contacts * Location * SMS * Phone * Photos/Media/Files * First Born * Wi-fi connection information ACCEPT http://openattitude.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/m-permissions-02-glympse.png http://openattitude.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/m-permiss... https://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1865181-A-Massive-Disappointment-App-Permissions-on-Android-M https://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1865181-A-Massiv...