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by colemickens 2522 days ago
Please understand I'm not excusing anything, it's horrendous it took this long to have user controls. That having been said, in the Android Q preview, Android occasionally lets me know that an app has access to my location at all times and makes it easy for me to immediately revoke that access, or limit it to ONLY when the application is open.

For example, this is what I can see by searching "Location" in settings and choosing one of the first results: https://i.imgur.com/jDF9vq6.png. It was shocking what this list looked like when I first upgraded to Q.
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zucked 2522 days ago
Yeah, that's Android Q, which is in Beta and not widely adopted. The vast majority of Android devices are running on OS's that have way less granular permissions.

I appreciate the move in the right direction, but I suspect that Google is reading the tea leaves to see that they've likely got antitrust on the horizon and they need to start laying the groundwork to fight that.

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colemickens 2522 days ago
It's almost like my own comment said I wasn't making excuses and pointed out it was a preview release. I don't know why I bother.

Also, I don't understand what Google being in trouble for anti-trust has to do with a bunch of third-party apps and third-party SDKs accessing and selling my information.

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