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by alexbakker 1606 days ago
> android.permission.INTERNET is frankly hilarious since that permission no longer does anything (every app has access to the internet).

This is incorrect. If an app doesn't specify this permission in its manifest, it cannot access the internet.
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UncleMeat 1606 days ago
Is that true? I was under the impression that this changed years ago since virtually every app requested it anyway.

Apps could always send content over the internet by sending an intent to a browser with relevant GET parameters to whatever server is consuming the data.

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mdp2021 1605 days ago
Investigating, but the Android Developers page at https://developer.android.com/training/basics/network-ops/co... still states that

«To perform network operations in your application, your manifest must include the following permissions: ... .INTERNET and ... .ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE»

Though yes, applications (with particular regard to those that did not open network sockets internally) could use intents to have other applications perform network operations.

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