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Google have completely messed up this SMS policy. Someone senior needs to step in and fix this, it's utterly toxic for developer relations. The process is unre
by Mindwipe 8y ago
Google have completely messed up this SMS policy.
Someone senior needs to step in and fix this, it's utterly toxic for developer relations. The process is unreliable and doesn't work, and bluntly this sort of whitelisting of APIs for people "we think really need it" is a bad idea in the first place.
Anything that is behind such a whitelist should be a userland permission, approved (or not) by the end user, not Google.
- rauhl 8y ago> Anything that is behind such a whitelist should be a userland permission, approved (or not) by the end user, not Google. You’re assuming that Google’s desire here is to protect the user. I don’t think that’s the case: I think that their desire is to control the user. Cf. how Android presents the user with a warning if he installs his own trusted HTTPS certificate (and how newer version of Android simply ignore his trusted certificate): Google claim that they are simply concerned about naïve users, but my contention is that they are motivated by a desire to prevent users from viewing the traffic of Google apps.
- tetromino_ 8y agoTry to consider the effect not just on yourself and the tiny number of people exactly like yourself, but on average non-technical users who were getting socially engineered into exposing their passwords and nudes to their bosses, stalkers, criminals, and public morality enforcers.
- stonogo 8y agoYeah, why think about yourself instead of this handy strawman?