> android tried this initially with the permissions system. But literally every app requested every permission and it became completely useless.
Google could have fixed this by allowing the user to give the app mock permissions instead, e.g. empty or randomly-generated storage, fake camera device, randomly-generated contact list, etc. Third-party solutions that allow this have been around for about a decade, but they do not have the reach that Google does.
Google could have fixed this by allowing the user to give the app mock permissions instead, e.g. empty or randomly-generated storage, fake camera device, randomly-generated contact list, etc. Third-party solutions that allow this have been around for about a decade, but they do not have the reach that Google does.