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We should base our state of the art on best use of the finite resources we have.
As an app developer I do not like this idea. You want to break the contract on what that permission is intended to be. ("Weather the Trip" road trip weather app for the U.S.)
As another app developer, I don't care. You aren't meant to request permissions you don't legitimately need for the app to function. Everyone understands that a map or weather app needs access to precise location, or that an app that takes pictures needs access to the camera. But games requesting storage or location or microphone or contacts, and refusing to run without these permissions? They should rightfully get w…
That would be something for sure
I’m all for the “fake data” idea, but also: Apps should be required to gracefully handle the cases where users deny permission to access real data. I know last time I developed for iOS, it was Apple’s policy that apps cannot punish users or exit() the app in retaliation for them denying a permission. Apps must gracefully handle it and continue running. Also, and this was even longer ago, apps could not require users…
> Apps should be required to gracefully handle the cases where users deny permission to access real data Or else? You're suggesting an organizational solution to a technical problem. This can't possibly work. Fake data is the only practical solution to this, such that the app would see the permission as granted when it is not actually granted.
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Why? I don't enable notifications and it's fine, I've never had a problem. If you don't want notifications, why would you still want the website to send them?
Some websites will check whether you have notifications enabled and spawn an in-page pop up requesting access before they trigger the actual, native browser request. So ideally this would stop that from happening.
But sites that do it are hostile and should just be blocked. What other shenanigans are they pulling?
I’m all for the “fake data” idea, but also: Apps should be required to gracefully handle the cases where users deny permission to access real data. I know last time I developed for iOS, it was Apple’s policy that apps cannot punish users or exit() the app in retaliation for them denying a permission. Apps must gracefully handle it and continue running. Also, and this was even longer ago, apps could not require users…
> Apps must gracefully handle it and continue running. Would this include… not doing anything? A notice that to use the app that you must grant access? I hate apps that do that … BUT: I am thinking of a logistics application that I wrote that requires location access. It effectively serves no purpose without location access. It’s a small app that we offer to our clients. Not an app for the general public. But it is a…
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Eugenics aside, people very regularly follow satnav directions completely blindly, the most recent one I can think of being the person who drove directly into the sea in Hawaii. If there's an opportunity for learning, it's not being taken
You say "very regularly" but when was the last time you saw/heard about that happening? I'm in the UK and I saw that Hawaii story and I can't remember hearing about anything similar for years. So my conclusion is that, out of an 8bn population, one or two making such a mistake once every few years is nothing.
I guess on a planetary scale that's vanishingly rare, but most things are at that scale too.
If we're going to think at those levels, nothing that happens in the UK really matters as we're less than 1% of the world's population...
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XPrivacy was incredibly cool. But on modern phones rooting and installing Xposed has either gotten massively more complicated or disabled ougright. GrapheneOS wasn't working with banking apps, Google broke rooting via Magisk multiple times on the Android Beta and at some point and i stopped bothering. Maybe GrapheneOS or similar Projects could do this
FWIW: Rooting seems fairly easy at this point in time , at least for pixel devices. Flash with magisk, install Universal Safetynet Fix ( https://github.com/Displax/safetynet-fix/ ) and you're passing safetynet / play integrity API. I haven't come across a single app that doesn't work due to root currently, but I limit my installed apps.
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Every smart home app seems to want an account on Android. Maybe they have a different path on Apple, related to HomeKit or similar, but I'm a bit skeptical.
Tasmota + CloudFree + Home Assistant and never make an account again and have full control over the devices in your home. No accounts and your lights still work when your internet is down.