[anonymousiam]

One of the things I really liked about the Android custom ROMs (Cyanogen, etc.) was that they allowed you to revoke some app permissions, but still run the app. Google will never allow users to choose because it conflicts with their own business (user data collection and targeted marketing).

Now they aren't even letting you know how much information the app collects until you download and install it.

[bagacrap]

Most Android app permissions are granted at runtime as of Android 6 which was released in 2015.

[nybble41]

Unfortunately apps can refuse to run if you don't grant them the permissions they requested. A better system than simply allowing or denying the request would be to sandbox the app so that it appears to receive the permission but doesn't get access to any useful capabilities. Empty or synthetic calendar / contact list data, Internet access which is somehow never available, camera and microphone which only report darkness & silence, etc. Ideally the app would have no way to tell that it's been sandboxed.