Comment by yjftsjthsd-h
20 hours ago
Yes, more than anything else: https://github.com/cvzi/ScreenshotTile?tab=readme-ov-file#te... Depending on method and version of Android, you have to jump through ridiculous steps to allow screenshots.
20 hours ago
Yes, more than anything else: https://github.com/cvzi/ScreenshotTile?tab=readme-ov-file#te... Depending on method and version of Android, you have to jump through ridiculous steps to allow screenshots.
Their point was that you have to jump through ridiculous steps to allow anything at all, so users are trained to jump through them.
I feel fairly confident asserting that users are not trained to go through the steps to enable screenshots. Blindly clicking allow is one thing. Going back and forth to enable restricted settings and then grant the permission is quite another. I use a screenshot app, and am pretty technical, and it took me multiple tries and several minutes including having to go read https://support.google.com/android/answer/12623953#allowrest... because Android is so concerned with protecting me.
Not screenshots specifically. Every app requires you to accept a whole bunch of permission prompts.
Yes. Plus these are not even ridiculous steps, not for capturing the screen.
The bigger issue is users being spammed permission requests in broad categories that you cant deny. Like a headphones needing contacts permission.
Why would headphones need contacts permissions? Where are you getting these headphones from?
I routinely deny permissions to most apps on Android, and never have any issues. In my years of using random apps, the only app I'm aware of, which doesn't work without permissions, is Capital One banking app, which refuses to work unless it gets the phone permission. So, I just 1-star Capital One in the Play Store, uninstall as defective, and move on.
BTW, where are the permission screens on iOS? Or is the blissful ignorance more secure than being able to click "deny" a few times?