My paranoia in installing extensions is finally justified. If Amazon is pulling these kind of stunts, then imagine the kind of mischief the smaller apps are pulling off. This whole "scorched earth"-style permissions model that users can't make educated decisions about is what annoys me about current platforms like Chrome, Android and iOS. JavaME had an interesting model where the app asks permissions after it is inst…
> where the app asks permissions after it is installed (e.g. internet access, local file system access) for each thing it wants to do iOS does the same for the permissions it supports (access to photo library, contacts, GPS/location, twitter accounts, etc etc), but a lot of things are always allowed (such as internet access). Facebook also lets you deny specific permissions to apps on their platform. I've always wond…
Which, of course, is ironic given that every update to the facebook app on Android asks for more and more permissions, to the point where it can do almost anything now.