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Your understanding may be legally correct but is pragmatically incorrect.

“Normals” in no way understand they are consenting to this, and further, your employer continues to tighten the noose on users who did understand and turned it off, that products will no longer work without this data.

To be clear, Google has the right to demand location data as payment for services rendered.

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>>Google has the right to demand location data as payment for services rendered.

Sure, just let them be clear about it. By clear, I don't mean they mention it in the last line of the 29th page.

They could put it in the first line and people wouldn’t read it. Pop up fatigue is getting intense. Generally nobody reads notices anymore. They just want the content or service.

...anymore?

This has been the situation for years. Many times I have told novice to average users that the words on pop-ups or modals sometimes actually matter and to help solve their problems, they should try reading the words.

Turning on Location Services requires tabbing through pages of location-specific text before the OK button is enabled.

> To be clear, Google has the right to demand location data as payment for services rendered.

I like the GDPR approach where you cannot force someone to pay with their privacy. If you want to demand payment, you can demand money.

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