[dbushell]

It makes it easier for users to enable permissions, accidentally too, and thus lower security and privacy. Google products are designed to exploit that. Google probably has data showing a large number of users have disabled such permissions globally, with no easy path to trick them into opting back in. That would be the cynical view!

edit: also one can never be too paranoid around Google.

[throw10920]

> It makes it easier for users to enable permissions, accidentally too, and thus lower security and privacy. Google products are designed to exploit that.

I learned a while back that Google Maps was moved from maps.google.com to google.com/maps so that when people gave location permission to Maps, Google Search could also use that permission.

[tanaros]

> I learned a while back that Google Maps was moved from maps.google.com to google.com/maps so that when people gave location permission to Maps, Google Search could also use that permission.

This does not appear to be the case, at least on iOS Safari. I went to Google Maps, gave it permission, then went to Google Search and searched for “delivery near me.” It again asked me for permission.

[DangitBobby]

I imagine browsers have special logic for misbehaving major websites baked in all over the place.