This app requires access to your contacts

https://lemmy.zip/post/28090895

This app requires access to your contacts - Lemmy.zip

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/28090390 [https://lemmy.zip/post/28090390] > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/35018512 [https://lemmy.ca/post/35018512] > > > Far more than c/mildlyinfuriating

Android has this feature of “Work Profile” that allows you to put these shitty apps in a separate profile so they can’t accept any of your data. I mean it’d be better if we don’t have distopian apps to begin with, but here we are…

(I used an app called “Shelter” that sets up a “work profile” and put apps in there and the apps can’t acces my photos contacts, or anything basically)

There’s also Insular which let’s you clone apps and run them in an isolated sandbox. It’s open source and available in F-Droid.
What is “Insular”

Isolate your big brother

Insular
Correct! I use it whenever I am forced to install some apps. I always loved the android architechture