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Modern platforms should always keep a banhammer nearby to quickly and severely punish malicious behavior from apps. I wish there was a platform that combined t

• grishka 4y ago
  I very much oppose there being "platforms" with gatekeepers in the first place. The countermeasures to privacy-violating apps should be technical, not organizational. Sandbox all apps, don't give them anything that could be used to uniquely identify the user across apps. Require user consent for everything potentially sensitive, including internet access. Give the user the ability to grant fake permissions to apps — for example, a fake location permission where the system says "yes it's granted" but never returns any location data, "searching" for GPS indefinitely.
  • Zak 4y ago
    Before Android had finer-grained permissions[0], I used Xposed, a framework that allowed deep modifications to the OS and apps, and a permissions management tool called Xprivacy. It provided the kind of features you're describing, including fake locations that apps could not detect. Yes, Facebook, you can access my location. I'm in Pyongyang, North Korea. Successors to Xposed and Xprivacy exist, but I have not used them. It may be time to revisit that. [0] Many people, including me are still not satisfied with Android's permissions.