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yincrash on Feb 19, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: How schools around the country are turning dead PC...

There are a lot of uses that are benign or beneficial, such as indexing emails for easier searching, etc but having to have an explicit permission prompt for every one of those uses would severly hinder UX

antsar on Feb 19, 2016 [–]

It doesn't need to be a UX thing, just provide an itemized list of the ways in which the data will be used on a page like the one linked.

They choose not to do this, arguably because they know what sort of reactions that list would evoke.

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