Re: Android keyboard: your choice.

Andy Burns wrote on Fri, 28 Jun 2024 09:54:12 +0100 :

It's simpler to use permission-reporting tools AFTER the APK is installed.

 
There's a problem with that approach (though not applicable in this
instance)
 
if you install an app which has both READ_CONTACTS permission and
INTERNET permission, by the time you've checked the permissions, your
entire contact list is already circulating in
China/Russia/Somethingistan ...

Thanks for that warning, which I fully agree with you is the problem of
checking permissions *after* the app is installed - as it can do harm.

As you're aware, I'm different from most people though, in that I have
already long ago put in place an amelioration procedure for that problem.

What I do is I make sure the default contacts sqlite database is populated
with garbage, which is easily done using various tools that do that for me.
 Fake Contacts
 Create fake phone contacts, for data-poisoning.
 <https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.billdietrich.fake_contacts/>

Of course, once I abandoned the employment of the default sqlite contacts
database, I had to rely upon only the best of the SMS/MMS & phone apps
which can import/export my "real" personal contacts vcard VCF files.

I'm sure you and Arno understand what I said above, but I'd wager that only
one out of a million Android owners would understand a word I said above.