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Cyanogenmod Puts Users in Control of Permissions
An anonymous reader writes "Cyanogenmod is soon to have a better permissions systems, allowing its users to deny certain permissions to the applications they install. Users are warned that enabling this feature on the nightly build may cause applications to crash or 'force close', but a new dialog allows them to easily return the permissions to stock if they wish. Hopefully Google implements a system similar to this very soon."
This is the biggest feature I've missed from Symbian — it never made sense to me why the permissions system didn't put the user in control from the first release.
Yea, it shows what is app asking for, but doesn't let you to choose what to actually give. Now its either all or nothing, but Cyanogenmod lets you to fine-tune permissions for app, so for example that notepad app won't be getting access to your contacts or internet anymore.
You mean like installing Droidwall does?
It's in the market and on XDA-Devs.
If you root you can use AdFree too.
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That is what this does. You ask for contacts, you get an empty contacts. You try to use network and sadly there is just is no network connection at all now.