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by vorejdajo 1808 days ago
The android app doesn't work without forced broad access to all storage. The reasoning provided for the Android app's storage permission[1] is a privacy nightmare.

1. Performance reductions for sake of privacy is acceptable. 2. Feature reductions such as watching a directory are also acceptable. No other app even uses this feature. This isn't Linux.

In any case, The app can still run without storage access, but chooses not to. It can access it's own internal storage at root without permissions. It can also access a dedicated app specific directory in external storage. If I just want to use the app without storage permissions, I should be able to.

1: https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian/Android+app#Storage+Permis...