Make privacy an optional permission #5840
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This change the privacy permission to the list of permissions that be can be requested optionally. Investigation suggested that this permission had always been optional in other browsers clearly.
For more details see 1618399 and the updated schema. Confirmation that this is optional in Chrome is provided in chrome.permissions in the section "Permissions that can not be specified as optional".
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