On 3 July 2013 12:38, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
Older versions of cyanogenmod supported disabling permissions so you can restrict what it can do if you don't like the requested permissions. Not in recent versions unfortunately. There might be alternative apps in the market to do this, haven't checked in ages.
Spineless developers {sigh}. This isn't the first time the CyanogenMod developers have shied away from greater user control. http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#change,5677
:-( To be fair, it is a weakness in the Android permission model. Basically the app says "I want this privilege and I expect it to be available." meaning app might crash or do weird things if privilege is not available. Instead it should be "Please can I have this permission?" and Android can say "Yes" or "No" depending on the user's preference, and app has to handle the result in a graceful way (yes, this could mean throwing up an error message and refusing to run). The idea that everyone will be happy to give an app a every possible privilege it requests just in case they happen to use that feature is a bad one I think. -- Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>