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Groxxtoday at 5:56 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's wild to me that "internet access" is not revokable or even displayed in the Play Store in stock Android. It's such a huge security and privacy concern, even if most apps semi-legitimately need it.

Or, it would be wild, if it weren't fairly obvious that this is just Google protecting their mobile ad revenue.


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AndriyKunitsyntoday at 8:58 PM

There's basically zero apps without some sort of analytics nowadays.

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subscribedtoday at 8:03 PM

Well, Google is the advertisement company.