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Sending GPC signals across apps and at the network level #2
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Hi. https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Context#MODE_WORLD_READABLE states |
Hi @SebastianZimmeck and @coolharsh55 Thanks for your input!
This particular implementation, no, but agree that app-by-app basis would be important, so as to exclude those apps one wants to support in terms of data collection. It might not be super important to make a point on these aspects though. Android seems to be implementing quite some restrictions in recent versions though, including restrictions on accessing the list of installed apps ( I think the This seems ideal to align with the proposed W3C specification, but pretty tricky since so many apps use different network libraries..
Yeah, completely agree. Root is not really option, and OS support seems so far unrealistic..
That'd be great! |
Indeed, in my view, the most useful feature would be to have a setting by which people can set GPC for all apps on a device. The, next step then could be a more fine-grained setting.
Apps like Uninstaller could be worthwhile to examine. Evidently they have some way of detecting which apps are installed on a device. OK, just gave you access to the repo. If you are looking at the closed issues, you can see our considerations and discussions. Not sure how useful the code is at this point. But at least it gives you an idea. |
Nice work, @kasnder!
Together with my students I was looking into GPC on Android a while back. We found two central themes. I am curious what your thinking is.
Essentially, these two challenges are the result of not having OS privileges (one could go the route of requesting people to root their devices, but then the user base would be very small).
If you want, I can give you access to the repo with our code and the issue discussions we had. Just let me know.
At the time we were looking into this, we also reached out to a smaller Android OS vendor (at the order of millions of installs) and they were open to getting GPC integrated. I am happy to make the connection if you are interested.
(cc'ing my students @ekuller, @bella-tassone, @JoeChampeau, @katehausladen, @sophieeng, @Jocelyn0830, @OliverWang13)
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