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Can you elaborate a little bit about this hidden internet access control setting?

>>baby_s+(OP)
"Hidden" isn't exactly right. It's completely inaccessible, unless you use a custom ROM like LineageOS. But it is a real permission:

https://developer.android.com/develop/connectivity/network-o...

>>baby_s+(OP)
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

It's been there since Android 1.0.

What's missing is a way for the user to deny it.

>>nottor+5c
Google also used to show you which apps used Internet permission in Play Store. But they removed it, which makes it harder to notice which apps don't use it.

Google mostly doesn't let you deny permissions while running apps that require them; recently there's some permissions that you can pick at runtime. So it's not suprising that they don't let you deny this one, when they don't even show it in the store.

>>nottor+5c
You can deny it on Graphene OS.

>>nottor+5c
Even device owner (MDM) apps can't revoke that permission.

>>876368+M
Force enabled, more like

>>nottor+5c
Interesting, you can't deny it on stock Android? TIL. You can on LineageOS.

>>baby_s+(OP)
You can deny internet to any specific app.

>>9cb14c+qm
Even on the play store Google management has demonstrated they can, and will, "revoke" ownership. For example, when a single payment is blocked on your credit card because you did a charge-back against them. Then, suddenly, they point to a 250 page EULA "you agreed to" that describes what they mean by ownership: nothing at all.

>>toast0+cf
Oh man remember when the Play Store showed ALL permissions an app used BEFORE installation and Facebook's one was so long you had to scroll multiple times?

>>nottor+5c
It's available on GrapheneOS btw, when you install a new App it shows a checkbox where you can disable internet access.

>>toast0+cf
It is still there

App page => "About this app" => "App permissions / See more" at the bottom of the page => look for "have full network access" in "Other"