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That's mighty generous of them. Does the mail contain an opt-out link?

In fact yes, my email did contain clear instructions: "You can manage this setting anytime on your $Phone_Model by going to Settings > Google services > All services > Phone number verification."

I got that email about my galaxy watch, except those settings don't exist on it.

Additionally, when I disabled it for my phone (which they didn't email me about), I discovered there's actually ad settings in these place where google was permitting itself (default opt in) to share your phone numbers for "better advertising"

But those ad settings only appear if you go to the settings on the web, not in the phone, which is where they tell you to go.

Would you like to count the dark patterns here?

Yeah, I was going to say: that path may exist now, but in one year from now, that page is going to look different. They're not going to send an email every time they change the page. And for new comers, they'll bury it in a 2000 line EULA.

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