I personally found that the new “Selected Photos Access” feature of Android 14, which allows you to give apps permissions only to the photos you intend to upload, is buggy on some apps. So far it seems to be broken on the Tumbr and Firefox apps.
If you also have that issue, at least with Firefox the Nightly version (which you can get from the Play Store) solves that.
Sorry I never heard that term, what do you call “file opener portal”? Not sure if it’s the same thing we’re talking about but it’s where you select the photo (or video) you want to upload when you haven’t granted the app permission to access all your photos and videos.
Good to know about Fennec and Mull!
I would recommend Mull first, and Fennec second, if you care about privacy.
Use Mull, have Fennec as backup if a site doesnt work
A portal is a system component an app can invoke. Through this portal, the app can get access to single elements, without needing any permissions.
Portals are great and need to be used EVERYWHERE. On Linux with Flatpak, the state is pretty horrible. But its getting better, slowly.
Technically: a portal links external files to the apps internal container. The files that every app can use. And by that any app can send what you want, without needing file permissions.
Its bad if apps on purpose refuse to use that, like Whatsapp and signal do