Thread · 2 tweets · 21 Mar 2021

And you know just as well as I do that this step will get skipped through. That's exactly why it's a dark pattern: get the user to press yes and then blame them if they're unhappy with the outcome.

There is simply no possible justification, irrespective of processing purpose, to collect data this sensitive this lightly. It's plainly and simply a violation of privacy. The fact that it is done by the browser makes it significantly worse.