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"If an app asks for Android permissions that it doesn't rightfully need (like screen recording permissions for a BMI app), deny it; who knows what kind of things the app can harvest if you allow it?"

Huh? Don't install it in the first place! Because, "who knows what kind of things the app can…" 🤦‍♂️

Of course, if unsure, reaching out to the devs for clarification is fair. But make sure the answer is reasonable.

#Android #security #malware

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Or maybe, here's an idea, don't let apps like that on the store in the first fucking place? If we actually had companies who gave a shit about their consumers none of these apps would be an issue because we'd have a actual human test those apps out before they're allowed on the store, and any that are like that wouldn't be allowed. But nooo we gotta give into corporatocracy idiocy, and we end up in a world like this.
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@crlcan81 at #IzzyOnDroid we have scanners in place that check each app on each update for such things. Should something "suspicious" show up, we receive an "alert", cross-check why the app might need that, reach out to the developers if unclear.

Results: either the permission is clarified (and the explanation added as in the screenshot) – or it is removed (sometimes, dependencies "drag stuff in" without the devs having intended that; we're all humans, mistakes can happen to each of us).

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Yet stupid shit like this ends up in the app store all the time, and doesn't get fixed. So until someone actually closes that loophole, I won't care one iota what anyone in Android or Apple does to 'fix' the problem. Until you start doing that, sit down, shut up, and let the actual grown ups talk. Otherwise go fucking do your job.
Guess what mister 'developer' I've been doing this shit before you ever had a job, before you were a twinkle in some idiot's eye, and I'll be here long after you die. So again, as I just said, unless you fix any loophole in that system, shut up.
I've seen this with Windows, I've seen it with Macintosh, and now I'm seeing it with Android and Apple phones. Either get your heads out of your asses and do your fucking job as intended, or let someone else do it right.
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@crlcan81 Now guess why e.g. I don't use "the app store"? I've cut my ties to Google ~10 years ago. No Google Services on my devices, no PlayStore. I prefer places where I can actually "talk to a human" instead of getting "robot replies" (if I get any at all), or needing to compromise my privacy 🤷‍♂️

TL;DR: Count us as "someone else" who tries to "get it right" 😉 And visit e.g. apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid instead of "the app store" 😜


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
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I use fdroid for specific stuff, it was one of the first 'nonplaystore' ones i went with because I'm alll for FOSS. But then I saw how badly it was curated, and realized it's just a crappy repeat of the playstore with better human involvement. Now I just use the play store and avoid apps that are shit.
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Btw: that's why at #IzzyOnDroid we try to make such #permission needs transparent for the #Android #apps we provide. Not just by linking to permission descriptions (what they are meant for in general), but also by explaining what *this app* needs it for – as the screenshot here shows:
Screenshot from the "Packages" section of an app with the permissions of the current release/version expanded. It shows sensitive permissions accompanied with explanations why THIS app needs them and what THIS app does with them.
#android #apps #izzyondroid #permission
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