Didn’t this use to be an opt-in setting?

No. It’s the life blood of Google’s tracking ethos so it was always opt out on google’s phones. It’s so important to google that they’ll reset these permissions to “enabled” for all apps on system updates, so you won’t notice it until way later.

At the very least there’s less “you should be supporting my sides’ genocide and it’s your fault my country is ‘openly’ evil now. we were hiding it and profiting off of it so well” on lemmy.

“Genocide as a Service”

Apparently, there’s a lot of people going around, anytime this comes up saying this is nothing new. There’s nothing new to the end users, who never cared. But this is going to make it hard for tinkerers to figure out shady shit Google is trying to pull.

GrapheneOS came out saying that they’ll not be affected because they’re planning to get OEM partners with access to internal branch. They’ve also mentioned they stopped reporting vulnerabilities to Google. Google doesn’t want being bothered with fixing vulnerabilities. So there’s that too

might be a concentrated PR attempt to downplay the change. idk

If I recommend some software to someone, most normies I know would directly go on to youtube and check some guy using and reviewing a software. The “official website” wouldn’t even cross their mind.

In this day and age if a random user really wants something, they have a miriad of options to see what they’re about to use. Forums, Youtube, blog posts and so on.

If a user doesn’t even bother a bare , they’re better off not downloading random executables from the internet.

The website isn’t end all, be all of how users find a software demos. You seem to think a single website is enough for users to make their choices these days. It isn’t the 90s.

Clickbait

With mental outlaw, it’s usually that or ragebait, to rile up his audience.

this guy is uploading 360p videos to peertube to make people prefer moving to his youtube channel instead. marketing, lol