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Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by DEADBEEFC0FFEE on Thursday May 02, 2019 @05:57PM (#19813374)
That IE story was specifically about YouTubers during the transition to Google. A story about how they used a legacy YouTube permissions role to circumvent process and oversight.
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Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by dylan604 on Thursday May 02, 2019 @06:27PM (#19813573)
It also specifically talked about Google Docs team doing the same thing which people at the time attributed to being first. This is what provided cover for the YT team.

Not sure if you're trying to provide defensive cover to Google with your comment or not, but it clearly goes to show they are not above these kind of dark UI patterns.

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Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by Dylan16807 on Friday May 03, 2019 @01:45AM (#19815868)
A one-time banner is not a dark UI pattern, jeez.
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