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That sounds like your manufacturer did something weird, the confirmation dialog goes back to some pretty old versions of Android

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Sett...

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Sorry for me 2015 is “recent”. I worked on android 2012-2018.

2015 is just some arbitrary commit that touched the message and was easy to Google: if you worked on Android I'm sure you're handy enough with Gerrit to find exactly when the message was added but afaik it dates back to the earliest versions that supported this.

Looks like the request is qualified with "when connected", which would not grant permission to store the data.

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