This is an engagement hack. Get the user to give max permissions at the start so that any future call to action will have less friction and/or not require a mod

This is an engagement hack. Get the user to give max permissions at the start so that any future call to action will have less friction and/or not require a modal. It’s less about Google wanting to scan your data today and more about Google’s stingy strategy for photos plus Google’s lazy engineering (too many other interesting games to solve). Google Photos was born out of Google Plus, and is under heavy revenue efficiency pressure.