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This was fixed with Android 12 and now has a separate permission. (Although, that permission will also allow everyone to see your location due to how Bluetooth

by izacus 5y ago

This was fixed with Android 12 and now has a separate permission. (Although, that permission will also allow everyone to see your location due to how Bluetooth works, but apparently being notified of this fact annoyed you people so much that it's fine to ignore on both iOS and Android. But there's nothing "innocent" at allowing bluetooth scans - it DOES expose your location like the permission said before.)

urdinak 5y ago
This is true. There is however, a way to explicitly state that the app does not use the bluetooth scans for location: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/bluetooth/permissions#assert-never-for-location https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/blue... However, this would depend on the good will of the developer, as the end-user does not know whether this flag is set or not -- as far as I can tell.