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It's a given that the algorithm will not understand how each individual picture will affect you. Even a real not-you human would struggle. You're either "in" fo
by stickfigure 5y ago
It's a given that the algorithm will not understand how each individual picture will affect you. Even a real not-you human would struggle. You're either "in" for the whole memory-lane ride, or not at all.
There's no wrong answer; for some people the past is more painful than joyous. Personally, I'll take the occasional jarring bad to get the bountiful reminders of the good. Or maybe it's just my personality to take more pictures of happy things.
- klabb3 5y agoSo.. I just checked and both Google and Apple Photos do NOT allow you to disable memories. Everything is on by default, but you can disable notifications, specific dates and faces, but you can't disable it altogether. If most people like it, fine to leave it on by default I guess - the growth team has to get promoted some way. But at least let me disable it.
- arethuza 5y agoIf find the notification from Apple a bit alarming in a Black Mirror kind of way: "You have a new memory"
- muro 5y agoI just checked Google photos and you can disable people or dates, as well as notifications (on Android).
- Baeocystin 5y agoWorth mentioning that even with People disabled, it'll still produce 'Spotlight on You' sequences, and if you search for a person, they become fair game again for future photo collages.
- Nextgrid 5y agoThere’s no valid reason I can see for “Photos” to send you notifications at all. I mean, 10 years ago did we provide our email/phone number to our DSLRs or paper photo albums? No, and we’ve ended up just fine. Disable that crap entirely. Same goes for a lot of preinstalled apps - News, Music, Game Center (why does that one still exist?), etc.
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