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From: Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: ebook-reader permissions - no explanation given
Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 17:37:34 +0100
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R.Wieser wrote:

> It gives me the feeling that the requested alter-and-delete permission is
> bogus, something that is there because it cannot be seperated from the read
> permission.

If I remember correctly, there is/was an oddity about permissions and 
their their grouping, if an app asks you to grant one permission from a 
particular group, it can later "grant itself" additional permissions 
from that same group, without you having to agree ...