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That's the problem with android. The 'typical user' has no control over individual app permission - it's literally all or none. If you install the app you give
by zipperhead 12y ago
That's the problem with android. The 'typical user' has no control over individual app permission - it's literally all or none. If you install the app you give it access to the GPS, as long as it has specified that permission.
- wongarsu 12y agoRooted Cyanogenmod actually has privacy settings which enable you to restrict some permissions on a per-app basis. For example I don't allow Facebook Messenger access to GPS and Android asks me before Messenger gets camera access.
- hackuser 12y ago> Rooted Cyanogenmod actually has privacy settings which enable you to restrict some permissions on a per-app basis Why only "some"; why not all?
- dagar 12y agoI honestly don't understand why this is a problem. Isn't it enough that the app says it requires my location when I install it? If you don't like the required permissions no one is forcing you to install it.
- Sidnicious 12y agoPopular apps can essentially request any permission and you'll still download it — are you really going to forgo having Facebook on your phone because it asks for a couple of slightly-objectionable permissions? On iOS, the average user has a chance to download that mainstream app and deny it access to their contacts.
- robotresearcher 12y ago> are you really going to forgo having Facebook on your phone because it asks for a couple of slightly-objectionable permissions? That sounds like you meant it as a rhetorical question, but "yes" is a reasonable answer.
- hahainternet 12y agoI've no idea why you have been downvoted. I also do not have apps on my phone which ask for permissions I do not like.
- thesteamboat 12y agoIt sounds to me like the question was supposed to read > are [most people] really going to forgo having Facebook [...] There will certainly always be people who do pay attention to permissions for privacy or security reasons, but they seem* vastly outnumbered by the people who don't. * Just an intuitive sense, I have not looked for data to back this up.
- lighthazard 12y agoThe point is valid, but it still doesn't address the 'general population' problem - how do you get the users to care about their security/privacy? Giving fine-grain control over permissions is a fantastic idea.. but then you realize that the 'general population' that you made this for will never touch those settings, so it's no different than telling users what permissions an application will take. Also, the development cost of 'does this feature exist?' for each permission is pretty high.
- waxjar 12y agoI did, I use a third-party facebook client. It's cumbersome :(
- sliverstorm 12y agoYes, I did forgo the Facebook app. For a host of reasons though, permissions being only one of them. Then Facebook Lite came out, and it was what I wanted all along.
- digi_owl 12y agoGoogle badly obfuscated permissions in a recent Play store update. Where before it listed each permission, and required a manual approval of any was added in a app update, it now only list categories. And it will only require manual approval if a new category is added. And the categories are wide enough that someone can add an innocuous permission initially, and then push a update some time later that gives them virtually free reign of the user data.