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  • Martin@feddit.nuEnglish
    145·
    1 year ago

    Clickbaity headline to scare you for no reason with an easily detectable behavior. If a white box suddenly appears on top of all my other apps I would get really suspicious and start to uninstall apps until it went away.

    That says, I do agree with the conclusion that granting permission to draw over other apps is dangerous.

    • Exusgu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      The author proceeds to style the overlay like a toast, making it much less obvious than the ever-present white square. I wouldn’t dismiss it so easily.

    • Sethayy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Theoretically if youre on the all they could just add whatever would originally be covered by the toast