Apps want so much unnecessary access
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Download an app, Give app my location, Give app my precise location, Allow app to always run in the background
Overview
This is a 4-panel sequential meme based on the popular 'clown applying makeup' format. Each left side of the panel lists a step of granting increasingly intrusive permissions to a newly downloaded mobile application, while the right side shows a person progressively applying full clown makeup. The permission steps are: 1) Download an app, 2) Give app my location, 3) Give app my precise location, 4) Allow app to always run in the background. By the final panel, the person is fully transformed into a clown, sarcastically implying that users are acting like fools for agreeing to these overreaching, unnecessary app permission requests.
Origin notes
This meme was sourced from the Reddit r/Meme subreddit via RSS feed, with the original title 'Apps want so much'. It uses a widely circulated, longstanding meme template of a person putting on clown makeup step by step, which is commonly used to mock people making progressively worse, foolish decisions.