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[โ€“] Carighan 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's 7 years old.

And is in fact how you should do this. Open and opt-in. The whole point we're angry here is that other companies do it without asking.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Oh, I only noticed it yesterday.
I agree that it's better to be opt-in, rather it should be the only way, but I mean the whole concept seems twisted to me, I would doubt that Google too wouldn't use their other countless streams of data to feed their own datasets with the fake opt-in of account registration on top of that specific application