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Cutting Google out of your life (2019)

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Re: Cutting Google out of your life (2019)

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Post by coder1001 »

colordrops wrote: post #3
coder1001 wrote: post #2

Is the goal to stop being watched or not having your info being sold as a product to others? The title seems to imply the second while talking about the first?!

Why not both?

Pretty sure you would have to cut more than Google to stop both?

Re: Cutting Google out of your life (2019)

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Post by burgerzzz »

I've stopped using every Google product but Google search, and unfortunately Google Captcha, which I absolutely abhor. I downloaded Google Photos a few days ago to try and export some old photos and it refuses to let you view your old photos until you have give access to your current photos. That really typifies my experience with Google.

Re: Cutting Google out of your life (2019)

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Post by 0xEFF »

burgerzzz wrote: post #6

I've stopped using every Google product but Google search, and unfortunately Google Captcha, which I absolutely abhor. I downloaded Google Photos a few days ago to try and export some old photos and it refuses to let you view your old photos until you have give access to your current photos. That really typifies my experience with Google.

If you’re on iOS how would the app download a photo without write access to photos?

Re: Cutting Google out of your life (2019)

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Post by burgerzzz »

0xEFF wrote: post #7
burgerzzz wrote: post #6

I've stopped using every Google product but Google search, and unfortunately Google Captcha, which I absolutely abhor. I downloaded Google Photos a few days ago to try and export some old photos and it refuses to let you view your old photos until you have give access to your current photos. That really typifies my experience with Google.

If you’re on iOS how would the app download a photo without write access to photos?

To be clear, the first requirement after opening the app is access to your Photos. I didn't even get far enough to view the old photos, let alone an attempt at an export.

Re: Cutting Google out of your life (2019)

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Post by Daniel_sk »

burgerzzz wrote: post #6

I've stopped using every Google product but Google search, and unfortunately Google Captcha, which I absolutely abhor. I downloaded Google Photos a few days ago to try and export some old photos and it refuses to let you view your old photos until you have give access to your current photos. That really typifies my experience with Google.

Also there is no easy way to export all your photos. I learned this the hard way when I decided to move my photos to iCloud. There used to be an option in Drive to link your Google Photos albums and download them, but they removed it. You can request your data from Google and then download a large ZIP, but I had numerous issues with it and it broke the Live photos from iPhone. In the end I had to manually select ~100-200 photos in the iOS Google Photos app and click Download and then do this for all photos (it will not let you select all at once, there is a limit). And then I enabled iCloud to back up the downloaded photos.

Re: Cutting Google out of your life (2019)

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Post by Lammy »

coder1001 wrote: post #2

Is the goal to stop being watched or not having your info being sold as a product to others? The title seems to imply the second while talking about the first?!

One implies the other. How can they sell access to your eyeballs without surveilling you to study your likes/dislikes/habits/etc?
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