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PlainName:

--- Quote ---Can't you just disable it from happening on a per-app basis?
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In theory, yes. But it takes half a minute or so to do that for each app that's in the list, and eventually you lose the will to live. Plus that app you installed 4 months ago and haven't used much gets stiffed - I couldn't see a way to mark an app as ignore other than by letting it be caught and then removing it.

Once or twice is a surprise. Five or ten times is annoying. When it's potentially a couple of hundred times you want to shoot someone.

Edit: it's like spam. When it's not happening to you, you don't see the fuss. Get regular unstoppable spam and you'll soon be seeking retribution, though.

Halcyon:

--- Quote from: PlainName on November 07, 2022, 10:19:11 am ---
--- Quote ---Can't you just disable it from happening on a per-app basis?
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In theory, yes. But it takes half a minute or so to do that for each app that's in the list, and eventually you lose the will to live.

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This is my point, even this should be limited to a small number of applications for 99.9% of users and something you only need to do once.

eti:

--- Quote from: AVGresponding on October 07, 2022, 01:01:39 pm ---I guess I just believe in taking personal responsibility. Seems to be a rare thing these days.

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May I ask if there is a specific reason why you use that ghastly, unreadable typeface?

eti:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on October 27, 2022, 01:32:13 am ---As with almost everything else these days, the progressive, creeping removal of peoples' control over their own lives and belongings is mind-boggling and seems to be getting worse at an alarming pace.

Yes, Android is doing more and more stuff behind your back with fewer and fewer user options to enable/disable those features or even adjust them to your preferences.
Same with most commercial OSs these days.
Same with pretty much anything.

Be happy they are just annoying you with Android settings, for tomorrow they'll tell you how, when and where to pee, and you'll obey. ::)

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At some point someone will paste in the oft-claimed (and selectively misunderstood) “bbbbbut it’s open sauce and customisable” (both of which take great liberties with fact and imagination 🤣)

Android is a ubiquitous OS which has precisely the value and worth attributed to it by Google when they give it away to any old schmuck. iOS is locked down and ACTUALLY SECURE, and when one knows how to use one iPhone, one knows how to use all of them.

The product manufacturer is put in the position of making the best decision for the user (iOS) vs the “¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I dunno - try it and see - not our problem!” Of Google.

PlainName:

--- Quote --- iOS is locked down and ACTUALLY SECURE
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https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-49/product_id-15556/Apple-Iphone-Os.html

"Total number of vulnerabilities : 2820"

For instance (with my emphasis):

--- Quote ---An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in iOS 15.7.1 and iPadOS 15.7.1, iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited
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