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by FreakyT 4038 days ago
It's ridiculous how many completely irrelevant permissions they demand!

Facebook's laundry list of permissions is perhaps the best example of how Android's permission system is completely broken.

2 comments

I think Android's permission system works great. I saw Facebook's list of required permissions, considered whether these functions were necessary to provide the service I needed and whether I trusted Facebook to manage them for me, then declined to install the app.
I agree, but I'm not married enough to the native client to be upset about it when there's a perfectly good mobile site waiting for me.

If they tank their native site, well, then they won't get to harvest any more data from me.