Sorry for coming back so late on this discussion, I read all comments and I appreciate the feedback, either positive or negative regarding Aprrivacy.
There is no purpose to create mistrust on other applications. After all, I strongly believe that the wast majority of developers use private data carefully. I also believe that there are several ways to handle the privacy issue on mobile. To mention a comment, I really don't see ANY point in requiring permissions that you might use in the future, but don't use now. if your app requires permission X (eg reading contacts), I must assume you are using it, the opposite does not make sense, at all. Often, a developer has several ways to solve an issue, if the shortest and easiest one implies requiring privacy-concerning permissions like reading the log files (just saying), a developer cannot, in my opinion, be frustrated if that request is not liked by some users. There are lots of ways to do some good debugging without reading log files, just saying. If a developer publishes a good app, and at a later point she updates it by adding some functionality and some permissions required, users will just update and continue to use the app. If they don't like giving that permission to an app, the developer must be ok with that. if the user discovers the app being installed only when she must update it manually because of a new permission, well.. that is also good for the user (which does not need it, or, yes, does not like it) , as letting users keep apps just to see nice stats on Play also makes no sense. I simply don't trust apps that require permissions for which I can not see the purpose. Finally, I really do not see the point in feeling endangered by Apprivacy: this app should help both user and developer to keep things clear and transparent: users have a better view at which apps are reading their data and developers have a channel to reply to some doubts that may arise. Publisher's replies will roll out very soon, if you have some to publish on Apprivacy, I will be glad to receive your email at [email protected] I will greatly appreciate more feedback on Apprivacy, if you like to try it out, install it from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apprivacy Best, Omar Moling -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-discuss/-/SxM4W8lDJnAJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
