It's really silly trying to explain to us how it works or what the pitfalls are when we have a lot of experience with it. Could go on long rants about everything that's wrong with it and what they should be doing but it's not at all what people without experience keep claiming.
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So lets say someone genuinely needs an accessibility service because their phone is nearly impossible to use without it. Is making it difficult to find the menu for that instead of the app being able to send you to the accessibility page really an improvement?
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Either way, it's the same UI there. And BTW, accessibility services are pretty much the most dangerous power available to third party apps. It's also very widely abused for hacks, advertising nonsense and evil things.
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People getting tricked by evil apps into enabled accessibility services go to the same accessibility settings page as they would opening Settings by hand and see the same warning. It only means you don't need to open up Settings + navigate to that page.
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And to clarify something, by "hacks", don't mean "hacking someone" but meaning fancy overlay features power users like to have. For example, it was possible to implement red shift apps via accessibility services for phones not providing it in the base OS (it's in AOSP now).
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It's a powerful, scary feature meant for people that genuinely have disabilities and need all kinds of assorted services to help them. An app can't just prompt you with a dialog for it. Needs to be enabled via Settings with an explicit warning dialog there.
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However, despite that, it was widely used not just for actual accessibility services and malware using it for evil. It was used for hacking together all kinds of frills that people ended up widely using. Apps made by Facebook, etc. end up using stuff like that for frills / ads.
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If you have the permission, it's going to be used for all kinds of unintended things and users will do whatever it takes to get the app / feature to work. Even security-conscious people are going to give in to enabling stuff like this if they really want something to work.
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