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I'd like to see a modified internet permission that permitted access to only a specific domain. Maybe along with a policy prohibiting or discouraging using the all-internet permission for anything that didn't clearly need it, like say a web browser. Say the Twitter app only has permission to access URLs under twitter.com, and accessing any other URL domain is a separate permission.

I'm not sure if Google would go for it, but I suppose it would encourage devs to use Play services for ads and analytics, since it wouldn't need any extra internet permissions, while using an external service for either would.



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