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by johnnyanmac 840 days ago
Foot in the door technique. Classic trick.

That said, I doubt it here. they thought a feature was barely used and got enough flack to realize it may get them in deep wanted with DMA. But we don't know how strict they are with PWAs specifically. They probably backed off to prevent anymore of the various issues they caused themselves over this whole thing.