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Re: Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

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Post by joosters »

dimator wrote: post #95
iscrewyou wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still miss google reader and Picasa. I don’t think I will ever get over those two losses.

I realize google reader was a popular app, especially among the hn crowd. But there's been how many years since reader? Why hasn't anyone duplicated exactly the reader experience? The truth is that you miss the world in which google reader could exist. Free, unfettered, unabridged access to full length articles in a highly consumable format is not a thing that most publishers are behind now. They want your eyes on th…

Inoreader - https://www.inoreader.com/

RSS still exists, you know!

Re: Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

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Post by subsonicswe »

verytrivial wrote: post #38

For a few years it seemed to me that updates to Photos on Android would silently flip the quality setting down from Original to "High" as in "compressed", so I was never sure if the images I wanted to backup in original actually were backed up or not. I never set it to "High" but it kept flipping back to that. I raised, flagged, liked and did everything I could on the support forums to get the Photos GUI to report so…

This definitely sounds like a bug worth tracking down. If you're interested in using your account as example, it would be helpful to file in-app feedback including at least the following two things:

1. "I grant permission to look at my account metadata to debug this issue"

2. An easily searchable tag like #OriginalSetting

Re: Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

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Post by anshumankmr »

mountainb wrote: post #48
prox wrote: post #17

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That’s bad. Using any Google product will be the same experience, simply because you are not the client, advertisers are. I am sure there are fine people working on the ship called Google, but I don’t like where it is heading.

They don't treat advertisers well either, so you know.

How so? As far as I can see, they bend over backwards to help them, especially on YouTube by demonetizing stuff using contentID.

Re: Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

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Post by anshumankmr »

junkrat002 wrote: post #75
jrockway wrote: post #13

I got burned by this. I take 4x5 film photos and stored my library in Google Photos as 80 megapixel TIFF scans. One day, they told me I was out of storage, and that all the files were converted to phone-quality jpegs. They look awful. I got into this situation because I had a few terabytes of free storage that I accumulated while working at Google; there was some deal like "fill out this survey and we'll give your pe…

>but they altered the deal Pray they don't alter it further.

This deal is getting worse all the time.

Re: Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

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Post by sergimansilla »

psanford wrote: post #58

Its really frustrating that there's no good, opensource, Android media backup tool. I just want a simple app that will auto upload photos and videos to an https endpoint (or an S3 bucket). There are a few tools out there but they all seem to have bit rotted to the point where they don't work reliably on modern Android.

PhotoSync is actually very good: https://www.photosync-app.com

Re: Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

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Post by [deleted] »

pkaye wrote: post #89
kyrra wrote: post #34

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(googler, opinions are my own). See: https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/14/22175150/google-return-o... We are WFH till September for sure, and they will be testing flex hours after that. Though, they are still office focused, so you need to live near the office/team you work for. Note that there are a few special cases where they let an individual be remote, but they tend to be very very outstanding developers. I've on…

That is unfortunate WFH will not be common. I live in the bay area but I have health issues that require I get treatment at evening and night and its stressful to run through rush hour traffic to start my treatment. I am somewhat tethered to employers close to home to save on commute time. The current WFH at my employer helps me save a lot of travel time. Now I even get spare time to exercise every day. I hope more c…

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Re: Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

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Post by dehrmann »

angrais wrote: post #41
federona wrote: post #33

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If you use terabytes of storage on consumer oriented free or nearly free services you are going to get burned sooner or later. Switch to b2 or s3. Your data will be there for a much longer time. b2 costs $5/terabyte. If you don't access this stuff, it's probably at most $10 - $20/mo.

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but if you don't access data often, why not just buy an external HDD of say 10TB or such? Yeah, it's possible that data may fail, but is quite unlikely particular if you're not using it often.

House fires, power surges, theft, natural disasters.

Re: Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

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Post by laurent92 »

dimator wrote: post #95
iscrewyou wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still miss google reader and Picasa. I don’t think I will ever get over those two losses.

I realize google reader was a popular app, especially among the hn crowd. But there's been how many years since reader? Why hasn't anyone duplicated exactly the reader experience? The truth is that you miss the world in which google reader could exist. Free, unfettered, unabridged access to full length articles in a highly consumable format is not a thing that most publishers are behind now. They want your eyes on th…

https://theoldreader.com

Excellent. But what Google took away was the culture of blog-RSSing.

It gave an enormous advantage to Facebook and Instagram. Which are competitors to Google. What a bad move from Google.

Re: Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

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Post by jjav »

jrockway wrote: post #13

I got burned by this. I take 4x5 film photos and stored my library in Google Photos as 80 megapixel TIFF scans. One day, they told me I was out of storage, and that all the files were converted to phone-quality jpegs. They look awful. I got into this situation because I had a few terabytes of free storage that I accumulated while working at Google; there was some deal like "fill out this survey and we'll give your pe…

I hope you had local copies!

All cloud storage should be treated as ephemeral (some more than others, particularly google). It will change terms or go away at some point.

Only local storage owned by you is actually, well, owned by you. If it is something that matters, keep it locally.

Re: Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

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Post by coolspot »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #40
coolspot wrote: post #2

Google seems to be in some “cut all expenses” mode recently: + cancelled stadia game studio + cancelled free unlimited google photos + closed Chromium APIs for derived browsers + closed Google Music (replaced with YT Music) + froze hiring + cancelled new office leases

Hiring froze??

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/23/google-to-cut-marketing-budg...
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