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This Google Photos popup

It appears every few times I open the app and the usual android back button doesn’t make it go away, and there is no cancel button. What you have to do is toggle the toggle, then the button will change to “do not back up” and then you can press it. It annoys me how easy this makes it to accidentally turn on backup.

JustARegularNerd ,

I was feeling smug that being on LineageOS and now GrapheneOS for almost a decade I’ve never seen this.

…then I remembered my fucking iMac seemed to turn on iCloud photo backup last week after updating and next thing I know all the obsolete iPads I get from work are telling me how my iCloud storage is full

Seriously this iCloud shit is on by default, predatory ass tech companies. I’m pretty sure I disabled it on that iMac but it’s so possible that my own device can gaslight me that I’m left unsure. It’s off now and I spent an afternoon removing all those photos.

LodeMike ,

Rapist mentality

lemann ,

I recently picked up an iPhone as a secondary device, pretty much immediately disabled iCloud and installed Mobius (Syncthing) so the photos get sync’ed over to my fairphone’s SD card.

Now i’m second guessing whether it’s actually disabled, or if I’m going to get an iCloud full warning in a couple of months…

MangoPenguin ,
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I’m always conflicted on this kind of thing, because for every person annoyed that it’s asking there’s a bunch that are complaining that they lost all their photos because their phone was stolen or something like that, and had no idea that they need to backup their stuff.

BassTurd ,

Having a notice that doesn’t occupy the whole screen and can be dismissed temporarily or permanently is a much better and less predatory solution to this problem. This isn’t looking out for the end user, this is urging them into a system where the host can profit off of the user’s data, that also happens to provide a benefit to the user.

then_three_more ,

Why would you use Google photos as your gallery if you’re not using the backup feature? It’s like the only reason to use it over a different gallery.

asdfasdfasdf ,

This is auto backup of a certain folder. You may not want every photo you take. I turn it off so I can manually select them.

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