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FridgeSeallast Monday at 10:18 PM3 repliesview on HN

> Do you want to give this app unfettered access to all your device data, including other apps' data?

Which Facebook and instagram will present as “tee hee updated terms of service” in the first 15 seconds, and people will tick it, because they’re not interested in reading T&C’s, just want to message their friend about dinner, and aren’t suddenly expected be deceived like that.


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bloppelast Monday at 10:47 PM

Obviously there should be a system dialog to grant system permissions. I'm not aware of any kind of system with a capability-based permissions system (e.g. Android, MacOS, browsers, etc.) where apps are allowed to show their own dialog to request permissions. You always have to do something in the system settings to grant permissions.

That's how it should be done. And that would be the responsible way to comply with the DMA.

ruszkilast Monday at 10:25 PM

Did they really circumvent this exact restriction which was imposed on them on OS level by Apple?

Zagittalast Monday at 10:52 PM

Ah yes something a trillion dollar tech company definitely is too inept to solve!

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