Why do you say that? I’ve never had that happen with any other of my Google data opt-outs.
I hate Google as much as the next person but, yeah, messing with opt-outs is something I've seen with Microsoft and Meta but not with Google.
That wouldn't be legal I think.
You'd think so, but these companies skirt around it by then adding or breaking up permissions even further, like "oh, yes you DID disable data collection for X, but.... we added a new permission for data collection for Y, and by the way it is opt-out! Too bad!".
LinkedIn is the master of this. They keep creating new notification types, which are enabled by default.
That's not how it works
They usually go for the "Software Bug nothing we could do." Microsoft and Meta are notorious for playing the system like that, with no recourse.
Usually? Can you share one example?
Search for Microsoft and settings reset in the search bar and you get ample examples.