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Re:Google Settles Account Settings Lawsuit Less Than One Wee... by alberth on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @08:40AM (#37583403)
> ”don't get me started about these dark patterns”

Here’s another dark pattern for you in a totally different context.

So Google use just all of it various services on a separate subdomain (eg maps.google.com).

But they moved to having everything under www.google.com.

You know why, it’s because when you allow Google Maps to geolocate you (which is totally appropriate for a Maps use case) … now ALL of Google services get geolocation data about use for Search, Gmail, etc since they are all hosted in the same www root.

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Re:Google Settles Account Settings Lawsuit Less Than One Wee... by user3939382 on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @08:58AM (#37583569)
Nice benefit is the elimination of tons of CORS requests.
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Re:Google Settles Account Settings Lawsuit Less Than One Wee... by pc86 on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @09:42AM (#37584005)
No end user has ever been inconvenienced by a CORS request, so not sure that's a "benefit" for anyone other than Google.
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Re:Google Settles Account Settings Lawsuit Less Than One Wee... by tsunamifury on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @10:02AM (#37584253)
Sorry I find the ability to not allow geo for google.com for more than a day annoying as hell and a stupid feature where apple is over reaching.
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Re:Google Settles Account Settings Lawsuit Less Than One Wee... by pc86 on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @10:23AM (#37584531)
What does that have to do with cross-subdomain CORS requests?
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Re:Google Settles Account Settings Lawsuit Less Than One Wee... by alexvitkov on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @09:26AM (#37583837)
that's actually pretty cool in a very fucked up sort of way
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