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Unfortunately extending benefit of the doubt towards US tech companies is a luxury not everybody can or wants to afford. There is a clear pattern of enshittific
by bflesch 9mo ago
Unfortunately extending benefit of the doubt towards US tech companies is a luxury not everybody can or wants to afford. There is a clear pattern of enshittification of their products.
As you assume that GP has not read the post, how about you?
Because google clearly state that the "high denial rates" are a problem, but their framing of the issue is that the users have a "context gap" which needs to be fixed. Because they are convinced that even though users have decided against geolocation sharing with a specific website they want to get prompted about it over and over again as part of the organic interface of the website. And if they un-block it once over the new interface then the previous block will be forgotten and the permission will forever be granted.
A solution respecting their users would be to allow geolocation for duration of the browser tab, but that is clearly not in line with their data collection goals for their advertisers.
- Crpt774 9mo agoA permission request every browser session also wouldn't be in line with the needs of the average end user, and would train them to hit accept on any prompt that arises, as if they didn't do that enough anyway.
- nozzlegear 9mo ago> Unfortunately extending benefit of the doubt towards US tech companies is a luxury not everybody can or wants to afford. Is there any major browser vendor that isn't US based? The only two I can think of are Vivaldi and Opera, which are Chromium based, ergo US tech.