[ryandrake]

> Permission greed is definitely an issue but it's still the choice of every developer, and there are still plenty of apps that do not do this. You were right to refuse using the app if you don't trust it.

In fact, at least for Apple, their app store guidelines have, for a long time, prohibited apps from refusing to work without permissions. The app is supposed to gracefully degrade if the user does not consent to any particular permission. Their language seems to have softened[1] a bit since I last looked at it, but the intent is pretty clear: The developer can't just kill the app or prevent it from being used just because someone denied a permission.

1: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/