Comment by throw10920

Comment by throw10920 a day ago

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> It makes it easier for users to enable permissions, accidentally too, and thus lower security and privacy. Google products are designed to exploit that.

I learned a while back that Google Maps was moved from maps.google.com to google.com/maps so that when people gave location permission to Maps, Google Search could also use that permission.

tanaros a day ago

> I learned a while back that Google Maps was moved from maps.google.com to google.com/maps so that when people gave location permission to Maps, Google Search could also use that permission.

This does not appear to be the case, at least on iOS Safari. I went to Google Maps, gave it permission, then went to Google Search and searched for “delivery near me.” It again asked me for permission.

  • DangitBobby 19 hours ago

    I imagine browsers have special logic for misbehaving major websites baked in all over the place.