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He says the easy thing is to use the Google drive sharing model, which only works with other people that have Google based accounts that can be authenticated. T
by kyrra 7y ago
He says the easy thing is to use the Google drive sharing model, which only works with other people that have Google based accounts that can be authenticated. The sharing model in Photos is meant to lower the barrier for sharing with people with non-Google accounts. It's also worth noting in the demo he showed, many of the recommended sharing links were sharing with a user account and not via link (which would be gated behind authentication still).
- chaosite 7y agoThe point of the video is that he is sharing with a user account and not via link, and that is not being gated behind authentication.
- ggggtez 7y agoIf you share a google doc to public, it does the same thing. This is at best a case of user confusion, but is hardly insecure. Photos aren't even mutable, so having continued access after you see it once isn't relevant.
- chaosite 7y agoYes, but here you aren't sharing the picture to the public, you're sharing it to a specific person.
- Forge36 7y agoIt's interesting to me that photos shares a link to a website, and doesn't send the photo itself to an app when shared. While Google's way allows for better privacy by allowing us to revoke access, this isn't clear to users