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I'm not an app developer. Would this be technically doable on Android? Isn't there already support for running certain apps in a sandbox/container?

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I _think_ cyanogenmod exposes some of this functionality.

But as soon as it’s implemented, snoopy apps will just raise the bar further (sms verification, face verification, ‘add this contact to your phone book’, etc)

Yep. It's going to be an arms race. So be it. Our AI vs. adtech AI.

It may just be that once this exists then you end up in the "software engineer who uses hn " bucket and will just see adds for ssds and processors and coding conferences... A segment that is really hard to identify may turn into a group that is generally easy to identify...

That's good, that's how we know it works. From there, it can spread to family members, friends, etc.

Please don’t. I can’t beat google captchas as it is.

They can verify SMS all they want but they'll sell my location data consisting only of my random floats. I don't mind legitimate uses, like verifying you're a human or a real user for that matter.

It has been done by XPrivacy and XPrivacyLua.

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