Like in title. Modern Android permission system is really annoying. It assumes I do not trust installed apps and I believe was made to promote loose installing of whatever crap like loyalty cards apps, while I only install a couple of trusted apps all from F-Droid.
Such module would enable faster installation of the systems and less irritation when I have to give app a permission third time this month (Android now can decide for myself and revoke permission when it thinks it’s no longer needed…).
This permissions I have on for my browser anyway, also I still need to click “install” on the popup here regardless of permission switch.
And with my idea I was thinking about normal permissions, not special ones.
Weird, can’t get to it. I know I’ve seen a toggle to turn that behavior off though. Maybe next time it does it open the notification and it’ll be in there?
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You can disable revoking permissions for unused apps.
Is there a global switch? I only have the option for disabling this for every app separatly.
There isn’t, but you only need it for apps you use like once a year otherwise it doesn’t remove permissions.
That would be extremely dangerous
Can you give me any example scenario of the attack?
You accidentally download malware and instead of you denying permissions it shouldn’t have it has them automatically.
A browser app is compromised via a JavaScript engine flaw and now has permission to install packages.
This permissions I have on for my browser anyway, also I still need to click “install” on the popup here regardless of permission switch. And with my idea I was thinking about normal permissions, not special ones.
This is easily bypassed by using the accessibility API which an all-permitted app can use to automatically handle dialogs.
But yes, if you’re thinking some permissions are more special than others, it would depend on what permissions you are enforcing.
You don’t want Android then it sounds like. As for the permission revocation thing, just turn it off. 🙄
I’m sure AOSP could be patched to disable checks, but I think Android has different goals than the user in this case.
Android is unfortunately the only stable option for mobile OS now.
Weird, can’t get to it. I know I’ve seen a toggle to turn that behavior off though. Maybe next time it does it open the notification and it’ll be in there?