> The systems which provided generic data worked very well a lot of the time, but also some of the time would just subtly break things in a way which was not ob

> The systems which provided generic data worked very well a lot of the time, but also some of the time would just subtly break things in a way which was not obvious for a non-technical user. Is this available via a non-root API? There are those blackmailing applications that refuse to do their core functionality when a certain unrelated permission is denied (the hell you need my location, music streaming app!). If Android fed them generic data, they would quickly learn to detect it - but not if data is controlled by other Apps or the user himself.