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Seth Rosenblatt for Cnet:

When you install any app on Android, it shows you a list of permissions that the app wants to access. Android’s explicit call-out system for app permissions can be useful for people who care about such things. It’s a moderately helpful tool that reveals how close to your personal data the app wants to snuggle.

The second is far less nuanced. If you don’t like a permission request, what are you going to do about it? You have two options. You can stop the offending app from installing, or you can hold your nose and ignore your potentially legit concerns.

“Once that permission is granted, there’s little the user can do to prevent a misbehaving app from abusing the permission,” wrote Oberheide. “In general, I think that the user’s desire to install an app overrides the user’s perceived risk or impact of the permissions they’re approving.”

People will weigh in between using a social app and giving up their privacy. A lot of people will more likely give up privacy than not use a popular or useful app just like how a lot of people protested the design changes on Facebook yet it kept growing and they keep using it.