> Now Google won't let you subscribe to podcasts in their app unless you turn on location history storage, like those two things are actually mutually exclusive

> Now Google won't let you subscribe to podcasts in their app unless you turn on location history storage, like those two things are actually mutually exclusive. Have they made any statement on why that? I don't use their podcast app, but that's particularly egregious. I've seen similar stuff with Android Auto/Google Assistant requiring Web & Location History; but I gave them a bit more benefit of the doubt because that data could be used for needed context to answer voice queries, and I could see them not wanting to create special cases that did not use those permissions for business reasons.