this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2024
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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
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If you're in the EU, this is illegal. Consent has to be given freely for it to have legal weight. That means, it cannot be tied to the performance of the service, unless providing the data is strictly necessary for providing the service.
I guess, they get away with it, because no one cares enough to sue a shitty game.
I am, but what can I do? Try and reporting it via the obtuse methods of Google to have them investigate themselves seems pointless
Report them to your national privacy authority.
Assuming you are living in the EU, your country will have that.