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Another example: I open Google Photos to look at a photo album someone sent me, and it tells me it can't function without access to my own photos. Untrue. For
by fourthark 8y ago
Another example: I open Google Photos to look at a photo album someone sent me, and it tells me it can't function without access to my own photos. Untrue.
For a while I could still click no, but then they forbade that. So I gave up and clicked yes, and now they've got all my photos
- gcb0 8y agogoogle sold that one as a security feature. instead of all apps with access to your sd card (virtual internal shared storage) having access to your photos, they created a secure photo storage, and apps can subscribe to it. they just happen to conveniently offer a bloatware photo app, shipped with every device just like internet explorer, that also happens to upload all your pictures to google servers. gphotos is the first thing I disable on every phone (because you can't uninstall bloatware system apps). chrome is the second, because I must use it to download f-droid and firefox.
- dvfjsdhgfv 8y agoThere are much more examples like these. And then at some point Google seems surprised people hate them. There is a huge contrast between the outlook inside G (we're an ethical company, still based on do no evil unlike the rest) and how others see them.