Re: [permissions] Faking permissions (#54)

>That is completely different than from what you initially said
No.

> 'either you give a permission or you won't use the app, you better give the permission because our app is unique and you have no choice ;).' This contains coercion and urges the user to do something which is very bad.

This is how market works. Noone owes you anything, and the webapp developer is not obliged to provide you the service. Neither you obliged to provide them the data. I don't think that trading data for service is "very bad", anyone has right to do with his data anything, including selling it to third parties or bartering for service. But building internet economy over business models based on trading user's data is very bad, IMHO even business models based on forcing the user to see untargeted ads are less dangerous.

>An app simply showing an error message is completely fine and it is not any kind of *mail, green, or black or whatever.

An app showing an error message because it is unable to service the user without them is completely fine, but an app which purpose is to make a user to barter his personal data for crap isn't.

>I will be unsubscribing now.
OK.

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