Consent was obtained, as described in the article.

Did you read the article? The author got consent.

> Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

To be fair to the above it's a pretty central factoid that is mentioned more than a few times, but yes, I agree with you.