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I don't necessarily have an issue with the idea that every app I install can read all my files. It's not great, because it forces me to place a lot of trust in every application, but if the alternative is compromising what those apps can do, or bombarding me with security prompts... well, I can see both sides of that argument.

However, if we are going to go down the path of compromising functionality and adding lots of annoying prompts, then that strategy had better actually work!

If despite all of these annoyances apps can still read my browsing history, that means I also still need to trust every application I install, so I'd definitely prefer we just went back to where we started.



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