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Users will be able to manually revoke that permission on Android 14 (already available in the current beta under Apps -> Special app access -> Full screen notifications);
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Google Play will auto-revoke those permissions from newly installed apps unless they provide call or alarm functionality;
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This permission will remain for apps that were installed before the Android 14 update.
(source: Mishaal Rahman on X)
I don’t install anything that has ads so I can’t confirm this, but I guess apps that show fullscreen ads?
Its permissions for fullscreen notifications, i dont think many apps send ads that way. They can just show them fullscreen when your using the app.
I saw some pseudoviruses did that, interesting times 😵💫
Some apps already display ads as notifications I think? Won’t be crazy to imagine that there might be apps who’d do that using this fullscreen intent to show you a fullscreen ad even when your phone is locked, as if you had received a call. But again I’m probably outdated on this and just speculating, haven’t had a single app displaying ads since a very long time.
Pretty sure that is against the play store TOS. There were those phones from Amazon you could get cheap because they preinstaled ads in the lock screen though.