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and badly-behaved apps will simply refuse to run without all the permissions they (and their ad services) request. With any luck, those apps will (rightfully)
by npsimons 13y ago
and badly-behaved apps will simply refuse to run without all the permissions they (and their ad services) request.
With any luck, those apps will (rightfully) die do to lack of user base. Of course, the cynic in me knows that the unwashed masses will never go to the trouble of dealing with all those permissions, even if they know about them.
BTW, what do you consider "badly-behaved"? I've seen so many "good" apps ask for so much it boggles my mind (as someone else mentioned, WTF does a music player need access to your addressbook?).
- JoshTriplett 13y ago> BTW, what do you consider "badly-behaved"? I've seen so many "good" apps ask for so much it boggles my mind (as someone else mentioned, WTF does a music player need access to your addressbook?). Any app which requests a permission whose use isn't instantly obvious from the nature of the app. "Full network access" for a non-multiplayer game. "Location access" for anything that isn't a mapping app or point-of-interest finder (and even the latter ought to allow manual zipcode entry or similar). Contact access for any non-communications app. Phone state access for almost any app that isn't an dialer or call-control management app. A music player that asks for access to your contacts would fall squarely under "badly behaved".