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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

and what would "access to your device" be (assuming this is android)?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Quick guess from me would be permission to use the camera(s) and if they have some kind of file picker or gallery, permission to access all media files from your phone (and older versions of Android did not have this "media"distinction, so they would give access to all user files (excluding sandboxed paths)

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You have to manually approve of giving each permission on Android, and camera and files/images are separate permissions (so giving access to the camera doesn't require giving access to your files). And you can make it so they only have access to it while you use the app. If you take a random picture and then uninstall, they get nothing except that random picture.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Indeed, and would you like to take a guess what % of Android user just accepts it as it is?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Presumably not anyone on Lemmy

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