<story><title>We can&apos;t check the app permissions on Google Play anymore</title><url>https://www.bluespace.tech/blog/google-play-permissions-list/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dheera</author><text>What they &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; need to do is to simulate data for permissions that are rejected.&lt;p&gt;For example, if I reject location permissions, then play back a random GPS trail in a randomly selected city on the planet, complete with simulated error and drift. If I reject Wi-Fi scanning, then show a constantly changing set of fake access points. If I reject camera, then play back some cartoons or deepfaked video as a camera device.&lt;p&gt;The app should never have to know its permission request was denied.</text></item><item><author>lovelearning</author><text>The dynamic permissions are not a replacement.&lt;p&gt;Some users would never even install apps that asked for too many static permissions on the Play page.&lt;p&gt;But now, if an app seems to meet their needs and they aren&amp;#x27;t sure, some of them will go ahead and install it just to try it out. How much can one run hurt after all? Due to unresolved questions or sunk cost dilemmas, they may even grant dynamic permissions. How much can one run hurt after all?&lt;p&gt;So this will manipulate a percentage of reluctant users into data-providing users by hiding a reason for their reluctance. I&amp;#x27;m inclined to suspect it&amp;#x27;ll benefit Google&amp;#x27;s ad impressions business and that&amp;#x27;s the actual motivation, not &amp;quot;feature parity&amp;quot; with Apple.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text>This would be a nice option to have, but it&amp;#x27;s only useful for a small number of tech affine people who know what they&amp;#x27;re doing. If the location doesn&amp;#x27;t agree with the IP address, the app would know it&amp;#x27;s not real. And if this is used with banks or payment services people are going to get their accounts disabled.&lt;p&gt;In general, I&amp;#x27;m not sure spreading random fake news about yourself is such a great idea unless everybody does it. And everybody doesn&amp;#x27;t do it, because if everybody cared so much about these things the problem wouldn&amp;#x27;t exist in the first place.</text></comment>
<story><title>We can&apos;t check the app permissions on Google Play anymore</title><url>https://www.bluespace.tech/blog/google-play-permissions-list/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dheera</author><text>What they &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; need to do is to simulate data for permissions that are rejected.&lt;p&gt;For example, if I reject location permissions, then play back a random GPS trail in a randomly selected city on the planet, complete with simulated error and drift. If I reject Wi-Fi scanning, then show a constantly changing set of fake access points. If I reject camera, then play back some cartoons or deepfaked video as a camera device.&lt;p&gt;The app should never have to know its permission request was denied.</text></item><item><author>lovelearning</author><text>The dynamic permissions are not a replacement.&lt;p&gt;Some users would never even install apps that asked for too many static permissions on the Play page.&lt;p&gt;But now, if an app seems to meet their needs and they aren&amp;#x27;t sure, some of them will go ahead and install it just to try it out. How much can one run hurt after all? Due to unresolved questions or sunk cost dilemmas, they may even grant dynamic permissions. How much can one run hurt after all?&lt;p&gt;So this will manipulate a percentage of reluctant users into data-providing users by hiding a reason for their reluctance. I&amp;#x27;m inclined to suspect it&amp;#x27;ll benefit Google&amp;#x27;s ad impressions business and that&amp;#x27;s the actual motivation, not &amp;quot;feature parity&amp;quot; with Apple.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seoaeu</author><text>If you do that, some users are going to land in a weird purgatory where they’ve denied camera permissions to their camera app or something, and be completely unsure of why the app is acting strangely or how to fix it</text></comment>