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I really think all permissions systems need what we had back in xposed/appops days:

Permissions should ~always be "accept (with optional filters)", "deny", and "lie". If the game wants contacts access and won't take no for an answer, I should be able to feed it a lie: empty and/or fake and/or sandboxed data. It's my phone and my data, not the app's.

We had it over a decade ago, xposed supported filtered and fake data for many permissions. It's strictly user-hostile that Android itself doesn't have this capability.



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