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Phones should have fake permissions for this kind of thing. Suuure you can read my SMS. Oh, I never get any SMS? Well that's how it is. Mine my contact info
by MarkusWandel 5y ago
Phones should have fake permissions for this kind of thing. Suuure you can read my SMS. Oh, I never get any SMS? Well that's how it is. Mine my contact info? Oh, look at that, I have no friends.
- fastest963 5y agoWhat's stopping them from just complaining when you have no SMS or contacts? They would just show a new dialog saying "Give us the real permissions".
- pjerem 5y agoYeah but that’s a legitimate GFY situation where you would infuriately delete the application.
- sudosysgen 5y agoThen you get an app that can generate fakes. Seems very fun to make
- stordoff 5y agoAssuming it's a built-in iOS/Android feature, hopefully app review would catch apps trying to circumvent the fake permissions, and the risk of blocking real users would probably discourage them (I almost never use SMS unless it's for a verification code, and I have no reason to keep those messages).
- dgarrett 5y agoiOS has this with the photo album permission at least. You can select to only reveal a select subset of your photos to an app. I assume Android has something similar.
- Animats 5y agoSomeone had that in the early days of Android. If you denied an app access to your contact list, the app saw a list of fake contacts.