Just read the permissions of their app, & know why it’s untrustworthy.
take picturs and videos
record audio ( these may be a problem, if they can do it when you don’t know it’s happening )
advertising ID permission
ready sync settings
run foreground service
run at startup
read user selected image and video files from shared storage ( this isn’t the problem: this is The Proper Way )
read badge notifications
view network connections
prevent tablet from sleeping
access to AdId API ( that’s ad id, not adLd )
view Wi-Fi connections
use fingerprint hardware
show notifications
receive data from internet
install shortcuts
read Google service configuration
read audio files from shared storage ( these ARE the problem: they can upload ANY audio/video/image file they can find, up to them, & you’ve “agreed”, … so they could “legally” harvest personal-images/videos from all app-user’s phones, & you’d have no legal basis to sue them )
read video files from shared storage
read image files from shared storage
control vibration
Google Play billing service
toggle sync on and off
detect screen captures of app windows
have full network access
use biometric hardware
Play Install Referrer API
change your audio settings
run foreground service with the type “dataSync”
TBH, I’m astonished they didn’t require Contacts permission, which apparently also grants the right to upload-to-them all one’s messages ( made me sick, when I found that out ).
DO NOT INSTALL UNTRUSTWORTHY APPS.
Apps should have ONLY the honestly-required permissions, NOT permissions which gaslight about valuing/protecting/serving the user.
I think some of those permissions can be granted and revoked on a granular basis (even file management, IIRC), but many of them cannot be. Advertising ID cannot be, for example. That connects directly to the Google Play Services app, and the only way to stop it is to either delete Play entirely, or pray that Google respects whatever setting you have to flip three screens deep.
Just read the permissions of their app, & know why it’s untrustworthy.
TBH, I’m astonished they didn’t require Contacts permission, which apparently also grants the right to upload-to-them all one’s messages ( made me sick, when I found that out ).
DO NOT INSTALL UNTRUSTWORTHY APPS.
Apps should have ONLY the honestly-required permissions, NOT permissions which gaslight about valuing/protecting/serving the user.
No more ruled-by-machiavellian-clowns.
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I think some of those permissions can be granted and revoked on a granular basis (even file management, IIRC), but many of them cannot be. Advertising ID cannot be, for example. That connects directly to the Google Play Services app, and the only way to stop it is to either delete Play entirely, or pray that Google respects whatever setting you have to flip three screens deep.
Is there an app that scans all your apps for permissions that you dont want but may have overlooked or had been preinstalled?
Maybe this one?
Permission Pilot
Thanks!