Bobby installed an app to get free porn. Now Bobby has a Smartphone Transmitted Disease. Don't be Bobby. Abstain from 3rd-party apps.
At some point, iOS gave you granular control of app permissions, and Android did not. That's when I switched. However, modern Android does finally give the user a similar level of control. As for my personal focus on Android apps, it's simply because I have an app downloader.
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@tvidas did a paper on this precise problem a few years back. iOS does JIT permissions whereas android does install time perms. May be fixed more recently in android. http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/W2SP/2011/papers/curbingPermissionCreep.pdf … . -
This changed with apps that target Android 6.0, which was released in 2015. Those apps behave similar to iOS apps, where permissions are granted or denied at run time.
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BTW, is there a way to disable background location requests on Android, completely or on a per-app basis?
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