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The internet permission is the only regular manifest permission you can't toggle in the settings. It is an obvious win for an advertising/surveillance company like Google. What is wack about it?

>>ycombi+(OP)
> The internet permission is the only regular manifest permission you can't toggle in the settings.

That's not even a little bit true? There's a ton of 'normal' permissions, almost none of which are user-overrideable. Like, say, android.permission.VIBRATE. Or android.permission.GET_PACKAGE_SIZE. Android has an obscene number of permissions ( https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.per... ) and almost none of them have a UI to control them nor any ability to be rejected

> It is an obvious win for an advertising/surveillance company like Google. What is wack about it?

How, exactly? How does Google benefit from random 3p apps having Internet access? And remember, Google has play services on every device to proxy anything it needs/wants.

>>kllrno+Ol
half of the random 3p apps include Google advertising SDKs. How do you reconcile the fact that the internet permission still cannot be toggled, almost 20 years after it was required in the app manifest?