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How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)

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Re: How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)

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Post by Brajeshwar »

My reason was the irritating, and equally convulated ways they go about where they are kept - are they part of drives, if I delete those albums, do I get more space.

I came from Picasa, (20+ years ago) eventually went on to Google Photos later. I kept that one as a back-up for a pretty long time, besides being a long-time paid user. I’m still on one of their cheaper tier for the family as Google’s services are such that we got to use one or the other (read relatives, friends, extended family etc).

However, I have made sure that if I have to walk or get blocked or something of the sorts that happens to people, I will just walk - no emotions attached.

Disclaimer: Article from my own personal blog, but I did blog about why and how I completely did away with Google Photos from our core photos collection (I still use it to host a bnunch of archives for friends, and families group photos).

https://brajeshwar.com/2021/how-to-delete-all-photos-and-get...

Re: How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)

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Post by fg137 »

theodric wrote: post #63
StrangeSound wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, but it's incredibly convenient? Same way I don't carry a camera because my phone has one

If I leave the house, I need my ID, which is in my wallet, which also contains my debit cards. Perhaps your workflow is different, but I would gain nothing from using a wallet app, so I don't.

I used to be in the camp, until I discovered how fast it is to tap my phone at transit vs taking out wallet, taking my card out of it, tapping and putting the card back and then the wallet back, especially if the phone is already in my hand.

Re: How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)

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Post by gsky »

nom wrote: post #5
dt3ft wrote: post #2

Older people (seen it at 65+) will just click the nag without knowing what the button does and end up beaming up all photos to google cloud with no ability to disable the nag (it keeps showing up after a while) even when dismissed. If you are concerned about your data privacy, you may want to check on what photos of say your kids your parents are beaming up to google without their or your knowledge.

It is worse than that. It fills up your accounts cloud storage, where your Google docs, sheets, drive files etc are stored. Once full you are caught in their trap: pay a monthly fee to the mafia or delete your data! This flow is intentional and they have set up everything to bring you there. The Photo-Backup popup (and arguably the whole photo feature) helps to shovel users more quickly to the end of the monetization…

This is true. it happened to a lot of people that i know

Re: How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)

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Post by michaelt »

darkstar_16 wrote: post #72
darkwater wrote: post #35

And when you get at ~90% of space full is even worse! I stopped backing up photos to Google and use my local Immich instance (+ B2 remote backup) but I still haven't cleaned up the old ones from GPhotos/GDrive and it nags me in every possible way to buy more space!

How much data do you have ? Isn't B2 expensive at certain size ?

For photos, it's kinda fine?

You can store 2TB for $14 per month; to fill that with photos you'd have to shoot 0.5GB/day for 10 years.

You can spend less - Google Drive and iCloud will offer 2TB for $10/month - but they don't really want power users who use their whole quota, so they don't make things like command line / API access easy.

Likewise Backblaze has an 'unlimited' backup option - but it's desktop mac-and-windows only, and it's selective about what it backs up - only 'user generated' files.

Re: How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)

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Post by dogman1050 »

jakegmaths wrote: post #26

I have a similar question: how do I stop Google photos asking me to update every time I open it? "You're missing out Update your Google photos app for the newest features" ... I have zero interest in updating. I'm not missing out on anything... other than being able to browse my photos without this annoying message getting in the way.

This is exactly why I don't use it and have it disabled. The arrogance of that message is stunning. I use Aves and it works just fine.

Re: How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)

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Post by VladVladikoff »

netsharc wrote: post #8

Ah, bigcorp with the Pick-Up Artist model of consent: keep asking until they relent. I find Google Photos asks me once every update. I got a Pixel 9 with 1 year of free Gemini Pro (or whatever version it is, their offering almost feels like Windows 7 Home Enterprise Ultimate), but because of their nagging about the backup I loathe to give them money to subscribe to Gemini beyond that. I have a Google Pixel 1 I got fr…

Feeding all your photos into their AI models for free, really showed them bud!

Re: How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)

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Post by afarah1 »

Worth the shout-out to the open source NetGuard app which allows you to block internet access for select apps without root, using Android's always-on VPN feature as a firewall. This is useful to prevent this and any other apps from talking to the network in a way external to the app itself.
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