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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.

Hildegarde ,

google’s android camera app is designed to open google’s gallery app. Google built an OS that has support for user selected app launching. They built a system that lets an app request the user’s preferred gallery app to view photos, but then chose to not use it to force anyone using google’s camera to also use their photos app. fuck google

treadful ,
@treadful@lemmy.zip avatar

Was super disappointed to figure this out after installing a different gallery. And AFAIK, there’s no alternative camera app that actually works properly, either.

radix , (edited )
@radix@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve always liked Open Camera. Of course YMMV depending on your device.

edit: it’s also on F-Droid if that’s your preferred store.

Eczpurt ,

I’ve accidentally turned on backup this way and lost a ton of storage. Definitely an obnoxious way to push your product.

Moonrise2473 ,

it’s EXTREMELY INFURIATING, my relatives always accidentally enable backup on google photos and the following day have their google account blocked for data overuse, and need to choose between pay for google one, or waste a day deleting the data on google photos making sure that it doesn’t delete the ones on the device

Moonrise2473 ,

and then every month or so, again “why u no enable cloud backup??” I already disagreed to it!

This and the monthly reminder from whatsapp to give all my data unencrypted to google and LEOs as a “backup” on google drive

shalafi ,

pay for google one

LOL, that’s the idea all right! I pay $99 year for 2TB of storage, so I’m a happy camper. My Windows libraries, movie storage and such is backed up offsite in addition to local backups.

The_Cunt_of_Monte_Cristo ,
@The_Cunt_of_Monte_Cristo@lemmy.world avatar

Asshole Google is doing asshole things. Before switching to Lineage OS this thing annoyed me so much. A few days ago I saw this prompt when using my father’s phone and I couldn’t believe that this thing is still happening. Google is so stubborn.

Moonrise2473 ,

100% asshole design to fill up cloud storage and taking gmail “hostage” - pay for google one or all your emails will bounce back

The_Cunt_of_Monte_Cristo ,
@The_Cunt_of_Monte_Cristo@lemmy.world avatar

I believe they want to process photos and videos to train their AI.

Moonrise2473 ,

That was in the past, it was the reason they gave free unlimited backups. Now that they have enough data, once everyone got hooked to it, they enshittened the shit out of it

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

Knossos ,

I switched to Immich and will never look back.

7U5K3N ,

I love the idea.

My old server wouldn’t run it in docker for some unknown reason…

I’ll have to give it a whirl again.

MrQuallzin ,

I’ve got both going for dual cloud backup. Immich is hosted local so I’ve got a backup at home, and I pay $5/month for 500GB storage with Google

BakedCatboy ,

I can’t wait until the immich photo editor gets enabled and hopefully it eventually duplicates all the google photos editor features because that’s the only reason I keep around the google photos app.

MangoPenguin ,
@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

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.

victorz ,

Toggle the toggle?

Toggle the switch?

marduk ,

Toggle the toggle switch

zkfcfbzr ,

It used to be even more annoying. Until a couple of months ago, after you tapped the No option, it would bring you to a full-screen screen where it asked you to select specific photos you’d like to backup anyways.

Interstellar_1 OP ,
@Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I know, and then they did switch over and you got both popups for a bit.

sanguinepar ,
@sanguinepar@lemmy.world avatar

Can you tap outside the popup to make it go away? Or maybe swipe it down? Agree that Back should be enough, how annoying!

Interstellar_1 OP ,
@Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

No, you cannot.

sanguinepar ,
@sanguinepar@lemmy.world avatar

Ugh.

dsilverz ,
@dsilverz@thelemmy.club avatar

What if you close the app through drawer, and then relaunch it?

DaddleDew ,

I used to be annoyed by this. I’m running GrapheneOS so I denied Google Photos access to the network but it didn’t stop it from asking every few times I started the app. Sometimes it even ignored my response and tried to connect to the network anyway.

I just uninstalled it and installed Fossify Gallery instead from F-droid. Haven’t looked back since.

LifeInMultipleChoice ,

Ever had issues with FDroid getting stuck during updates, it would get stuck for me every day or 2 until I just uninstalled it. I don’t install apps enough to bother with it, so I figured I’d reinstall it when I eventually need it again.

DaddleDew ,

Never had that issue

clubb ,
@clubb@lemmy.world avatar

There are open source alternatives to Google photos, a good example which uses material 3 (you) is fossify photos

Interstellar_1 OP ,
@Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Yeah I use aves, it is much nicer then Google photos, but photos has a locked folder so I use it occasionally

victorz ,

😏

victorz ,

fossify photos

Fossify Gallery?

clubb ,
@clubb@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, forgot the name

zecg ,
@zecg@lemmy.world avatar

If you don’t use cloud backup there’s much better gallery apps

atocci , (edited )

I used this feature for the longest time back when Photos storage didn’t count towards your free 15 GB if you used the compressed option. And then they went and made it so everything counted towards your 15 GB, no matter what quality you were backing up at, and suddenly my account was using too much storage space to keep receiving email. I go into Google Photos to clear out some of the largest pictures and videos to get a few gigabytes back, and it tells me that if I do that it’s going to also delete those photos stored locally on my phone. So now Google Photos is uninstalled because if I ever let it back on my phone it’s going to delete all my pictures.

Interstellar_1 OP ,
@Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Yeah, I had a photo album back when I regularly used Photos, and for some reason the photos would be backed up and the older ones would stop loading on my device? Which was a problem as I don’t have any cellular data. It still happens for some reason, even though I no longer have backup enabled.

HarriPotero , (edited )
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Google also has an app called just Gallery which doesn’t pull this crap.

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