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A comment on Ask HN: Why do many sites ask for recording permissions on Android?.

Re:Ask HN: Why do many sites ask for recording permissions o... by codemusings on Monday March 25, 2019 @09:26AM (#19482225)
You have to consider that this might very well be an advertiser or some sort of tracking technology embedded in CNN that's requesting this via WEB API. CNN is not controlling what gets executed via 3rd party scripts.

The abuse of the Notifications WEB API for instance is also very common.

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