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The Android 6 changes are a smokescreen.

You can't use it to deny specific permissions, only groups of them. If an all wants to write something your contacts, you also have to allow it to read them. This even though the core permissions system allows that level of granularity.

also, network access is deemed safe (by Google) and is thus in a group of permissions the user has no control over.




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