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They mean via an explicit permission dialog. Not something hidden in the TOS/Privacy policy

• mattigames 6y ago
  One of those dialogs people click "ok" without reading because they are lazy or are in a rush looking something up.
  • junon 6y ago
    "Yeah but it's not like they're banking on that, nobody thinks that far ahead." If you've spent even a minute working in the marketing world, you'd know that yes, yes they do. They think exactly that far, and then about another 10 steps beyond that. Those prompts are most definitely designed to be willed away by the user without allowing them to fully grok the consequences. Unfortunately, it's not measurable, provable, or enforcably illegal.