Just jumping in to say that while I absolutely agree that app developers engage in hostile dark patterns, the end-users are nonetheless NOT infinitely blameless

Just jumping in to say that while I absolutely agree that app developers engage in hostile dark patterns, the end-users are nonetheless NOT infinitely blameless. We often forget, those of us here on Hacker News, that we are not the average end-user. jeroenhd is absolutely correct that people, generally speaking, do not care about fine-grained permissions. We try telling them to use different usernames and passwords, to use pseudonyms, to only give the minimum required access, etc, and yet it just keeps happening. This isn't an access to education issue, it's a stubbornness issue: they don't care to learn it. And in fact, they will look at us weirdly for caring about it so much: I've seen people say that anyone with a protonmail email should get their harddrives checked because only paedos would want that kind of service. This doesn't AT ALL absolve the app developers for engaging in hostile dark patterns. But I do have to agree that even if the permission system was fixed to be perfect, it wouldn't matter for the vast majority of people because they'll allow everything anyway.