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I'm several versions behind on updating my Facebook app, because every update brings a litany of new unnecessary permissions.

For a brief period Android offered the ability to selectively disable permissions on apps after the fact, but that feature was removed. I'll probably soon be switching to an alternative ROM that still supports it.

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Tinfoil for facebook.

Basically it is a big condom for facebook so it does not stick its bejeezus inside your private babushka. Or something like that ;-)

babushka is a word for an older woman. what are you trying to say?

[stewie voice] "oh boy..."

I don't even know what bejeezus is supposed to refer to in this context.

It's also available on F-Droid:

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=tinfoil&fdid...

This is the real problem. iOS asks you when an app tries to do something which involves potentially sensitive information being revealed – I find myself uninstalling apps frequently on my Nexus because an update is asking for new permissions, and I've read the comments about fine-grained controls, but I don't want to install an app to allow me to have granular permission controls over other apps – I should not have to do that.

> For a brief period Android offered the ability to selectively disable permissions on apps after the fact

Install this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=biz.bokhorst.x... for fine grained control.

I just use the web page now for the same reason, the high precision GPS request was way too much information to give out. The effect is that I use facebook less when I'm out and about which is also a positive.

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