I tend to disagree, at least for many purposes. In the world of mega-apps (WeChat, Facebook, etc), do you really want these apps to be able to ask for or even r

I tend to disagree, at least for many purposes. In the world of mega-apps (WeChat, Facebook, etc), do you really want these apps to be able to ask for or even require permissions like this? In an older, kinder, gentler era of computing, if I granted a permission to an app [0], it was probably doing something with that permission that I wanted. Nowadays, not so much — apps are generally actively hostile to the user, and even apps that are friendly are frequently purchased by more or less malicious companies that turn them into malware. [0] Yeah right. There were no permissions. And apps were mostly well behaved because they had no way to call home to the mothership.