I can choose not to install an app, but Google prevents me from doing it intelligently, that is, filtering the crappy apps demanding ridiculous permissions. I have to manually click on dozens of them before finding one that does not require, say, Internet access. APEFS (http://www.bs.informatik.uni-siegen.de/forschung/apefs) allowed such filtering, but since Google Play was updated some months ago, it stopped working and was removed. Now I have to resort to F-Droid for free apps, but there are not nearly as many as in Google Play.
Exactly. The Play Store does not allow me to sort by permissions and doesn't display them up-front, making concern about permissions a fruitless endeavor.
Give me a fuzzy-sort option where I can just apply weightings to how much I value out of
(1) Permissions, (2) Popularity, (3) Price and (4) Relevance
Yes, exactly. I recently had to look through a dozen flashlight apps to find one that was non-scammy. Finally I found a couple that didn't require Internet access as well as personal information. Sheesh. Maybe I should have just written one myself.
