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With Marshmallow, you can just turn off or deny certain permissions. So for most people who really want to run the Uber app, the question is really whether it runs OK without all these permissions.
Very unnecessary overreach on android permissions.. Will be interesting to see how many of the fans of uber here on hn will try to spin this. Just forwarded to some friends, they are uninstalling the rogue app as I type this!
Very unnecessary overreach on android permissions.. Will be interesting to see how many of the fans of uber here on hn will try to spin this. Just forwarded to some friends, they are uninstalling the rogue app as I type this!
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And it wouldn't do anything for if you had two phones, right? This is pretty annoying as someone who still wants to use Uber. Enough that I would consider a competitor.
In what scenario would a person be using one phone for Lyft and one for Uber? I use two phones, but I have both apps on both.
My Samsung phone came with the Uber app baked into the ROM. Fortunately I know enough to disable it, but I can't completely uninstall it. And most users will be prompted ad infinitum to update until they give in.
Try an alternative ROM, such as CyanogenMod or OmniROM; they omit all the bloatware.
From a reddit comment: > The permissions you see on the install screen are actually triggered by various permissions in the permission group. I've checked Ubers (there's a button on the web play store and you can see it in the manifest), and the only one from the Device and App History group they actually use is "GET_TASKS", or get a list of recently opened apps. > Furthermore, on Lollipop this permission doesn't eve…
Either that's not entirely truthful, or the app permission system is totally broken... Need to find out when you last opened the app? "Get running apps"...?
I don't really understand the point of having fine-grained permissions (like READ_CONTACTS), when the user only sees broader permission groups. Can someone shed light on this?
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Not 100% sure, but I think the access to contacts is so that you can split ride fares with other people.
> Not 100% sure, but I think the access to contacts is so that you can split ride fares with other people. There's a standard intent to select a contact for purposes like that, and then the app only gets access to the information of that contact. Apps requesting access to contacts get all contacts.
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Why reward those you want to screw with cash? Just say no to an Uber install, even with a throwaway (TOS-violating) Google account.
How does using an alt account violate Google TOS?