>However, say that developer took advantage of the fact that the permission seemed reasonable to automatically make you star their app for that Sublime extension upon install. That would be malicious and unethical.
that is what i am saying. whether i read the permissions or not, (i did not though) whether i gave them the permission or not, did i actually go and manually contributed to their stars farming operation or not? if i did, then i would be guilty, if not, well blame the developer, not the user who was tricked into allowing their app to do this maliciously
I guess the logic is "you are responsible for vetting who you give permissions to" but yeah this seems a bit extreme, I would not punish the users in this case either.
that is what i am saying. whether i read the permissions or not, (i did not though) whether i gave them the permission or not, did i actually go and manually contributed to their stars farming operation or not? if i did, then i would be guilty, if not, well blame the developer, not the user who was tricked into allowing their app to do this maliciously