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[–] leanleft@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

offtopic but related: android privacy settings are scattered across many hidden menus.

[–] humble_pete_digger@lemm.ee 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Google is just such a bunch of pricks.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

Eh. There's parts of that in Android. The real culprit is that they do not fund the AOSP project enough. It's just incompetence and stupidity combined with an inability to change that.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

and a lot of the permissions you can only disable one by one, 3-4 taps for each of the dozens of apps, with needing 2 taps even just to see if the permission is granted for the app

and sadly, calyx and such forks don't fix it either