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It is manipulative to constantly harass users with 'prompts' until they break down and give up.


Indeed. My biggest bugbear with this is google's "location accuracy" service, which implicitly sends them not only your location, but a detailed map of any networks around you. It takes active effort to keep it turned off (and doing so actually breaks quite a few UI flows in google maps!), and still I've accidentally turned it on a few times and only noticed because I actively check for it. There is no reasonable definition of 'consent' which can be derived from that setting.


> It is manipulative to constantly harass users with 'prompts' until they break down and give up.

"If it works for Google, it shall also work for us". Regards, Microsoft /s




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