Still requires consent to run on a user's machine if shipped. What Google et al are desperately trying to keep people from waking up to is that they have been

Still requires consent to run on a user's machine if shipped. What Google et al are desperately trying to keep people from waking up to is that they have been treating your computer as theirs for the purposes of profit taking for decades. They've also tried to shape case law to normalize that state of affairs in their favor. Their legal and lobbying departments are there for more than just contract writing.