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I dont install app which requests excessive permission. My Lenovo phone has application firewall, everything is blocked, except two white listed apps. My /etc/hosts has 3000 lines...

It is not that hard...



This reminds me of the infamous HN response to Dropbox's launch 5 years ago:

> you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224


Why would anyone install flashlight app which requires access to contacts and emails?


My /etc/hosts has 3000 lines...

If it wasn't hard more people would be doing it; I think for users, this is hard.




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