App Permissions
App Permissions
I was a long-time user of Boost for Reddit. Now that it is dead, I have moved over to Lemmy, in part because I saw that is what the creator of Boost was doing. My only question is what everyone thinks of the app Permissions for Boost for Lemmy. Right now I'm using Connect for Lemmy and it doesn't require nearly so many permissions as Boost will.require. Particularly purchase history, is that just so it can know if you purchased the app or is it your entire purchase history? And location. I'm not sure why it needs that. Can someone chime in on this. Maybe ELI5 the permissions for me?
Purchase History will be for checking if you've purchased the ad-free unlock. (maybe carried over from BoostForReddit too? Not sure.)
Location is usually less about your location and more about your wifi network. Knowing when to refresh the connection due to network switching or performing actions based on what network you're on.
Your location can be determined from your wifi info + databases of networks that google/apple/microsoft each provide/maintain so location permissions are required to see that info.
You can determine if there's an active Internet connection without checking the wifi info.
Advertising and analytics. I wish there was a separate boost for lemmy without those type of stuff in it, but the in app purchase is supposed to disable all that. Can look at the difference in requests the app makes with the in app permission versus without it.
If it bothers you, I'm pretty sure you can disallow those permissions on phone apps settings, others already explained why they request those permissions