>I guess they legally need consent for that, and tying a feature improvement to data collection is still totally allowed somehow. As egregious as this is, it s

>I guess they legally need consent for that, and tying a feature improvement to data collection is still totally allowed somehow. As egregious as this is, it still doesn't strike me as nakedly insulting as Google's refusal to let you turn on the (entirely passive!) GPS receiver on your phone without uploading your precise location to their servers, for similar data collection purposes. I'd love to see this sort of thing be made illegal, but the only regulatory domain with an Overton window even close to that is the EU, and it's such a minefield of potential gray areas that I doubt it would get off the ground even there.