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Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.

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[โ€“] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Pot Calling Kettle... etc... ๐Ÿคฃ

[โ€“] dickalan@lemmy.world 23 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I know, right, the fucking balls of Google to fucking say this

[โ€“] ijon_the_human@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Because they are legally obligated to mention it?

[โ€“] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 3 hours ago

...except they don't for their own browser.

[โ€“] DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Probably GDPR if I had to guess. Seems like anything decent these companies do can be directly traced back to GDPR.

No GDPR does not require google to display app permissions like that...

Your just making things up.

[โ€“] Buffalox@lemmy.world 0 points 7 hours ago

This is not at all a pot kettle situation, there is no reason to warn about Firefox.