Description of the permission:
“Allows applications to open network sockets.”
It doesn’t seem like I need this permission since it seems like if you try to do something that requires specific permission-tags and you don’t have that tag, you’ll end up with an error message.
Also, it seems weird that links would somehow enable a disabled internet connection.
I just want to be 100% sure, since this permission can scare people.
And just to clarify:
I have a list of clickable items. When you click one of them, a browser is opened and you are sent to a page.
If you are sending an intent which is handled by a browser application, your application does not need internet permission.
If you are opening a webview within your own application, then it does.