Google's browser did not ask permission because the product team did not build a permission flow. That absence is the story. Privacy researcher Alexander Hanff's published analysis argues the download violates EU law, and the legal exposure is compounded by an environmental one — an estimated 60,000 metric tonnes of carbon generated by the mass deployment. Those two liabilities arrived without a consent screen because the product was shipped as a feature, not as an opt-in service. The registry-edit remediation [1] is the tell: the only meaningful rollback was designed…