On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Disconnect <[email protected]> wrote:
> At the end of the day, lofty security goals aside, google wants to protect > advertising revenue and doing that means giving advertisers access. > (Personally, I think the vast majority of users won't bother turning off > permissions, and for those apps that require it, the devs can use the a API > to say "enable advertising permissions or buy the pro version" or further > reduce functionality..) Just to be very clear: this has nothing to do with protecting advertising revenue, and no decisions about Android's security design have ever involved such considerations. In fact I am quite unhappy with the current situation of apps requiring permissions for advertising; however, this would be a very poor solution for that issue, as it only moves the brokenness around. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Security Discussions" group. 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-security-discuss?hl=en.
