• Placid@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I THINK THIS HAS TO DO WITH APP PERMISSIONS. IF YOUR APP NEEDS A PLACE TO READ/WRITE FILES, IT MAKES SENSE TO KEEP IT OUT OF YOUR DOWNLOADS FOLDER THAT COULD CONTAIN SENSITIVE INFORMATION LIKE BANK STATEMENTS OR OTHER THINGS. YOU DON’T WANT SOME RANDOM APP LOOKING AT EVERYTHING THAT ENDS UP IN YOUR DOWNLOADS FOLDER!!!

    GET RILED ABOUT GIVING THESE GREEDY DATA SNOOPING APPS THE LEAST PERMISSION POSSIBLE!!

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      8 months ago

      The mildly infuriating part of this post is OP thinking that his consumer phone OS was made just for them and not millions of tech-illiterate people.

    • glibg10b@lemmy.mlOP
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      8 months ago

      I understand the security implications, but I think I should at least have a say about what happens on my own phone

      The app in question is popular and open source. My SD card’s downloads folder is also unused and empty, as you can see. There is absolutely zero risk here

      • Nusm@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        But…… if you’re allowed to install into the downloads folder, then it wouldn’t be unused and empty…… ?

        Is this Schrödinger’s file system?

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          8 months ago

          OP isn’t trying to install into the downloads folder; they’re trying to grant an app access to the downloads folder to read and write data.

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            8 months ago

            But… if they write data into that folder, it wouldn’t be unused and empty… ?

            Maybe I’m misunderstanding something here?