in all fairness, what would one expect the app to do in the first place? sharing through the app is fundamentally different than sharing through, say, your phot

in all fairness, what would one expect the app to do in the first place? sharing through the app is fundamentally different than sharing through, say, your photo gallery, as that just shares the image itself. within the app, and the general ecosystem that surrounds it, the method of sharing is by exposing that image as a resource to external parties, and given that http(s) is the transport that makes the world go round, it would stand to reason that a url would be created and associated with that resource, and furthermore that anyone that gets that url would be allowed to access that resource. of course that's just generalized sharing, there's also more granular sharing at the level of Google accounts where you can provide specific access to specific individuals etc. but either way. i see no reason to be surprised or even particular bothered by this. if anything it's to be expected