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Good, more security and better controls means third-party apps cannot simply scrape all of my photos.
If I authorize an app to scrape an entire album, that’s a good thing. This isn’t more security, this is google attempting to squeeze more monetization.
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Have you ever used takeout? You get 33 1GB chunks in a link sent via _EMAIL_ that then I have to click on and authenticate in my browser. 33 clicks.
You can change to archive size to 50GB per file.
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Have you ever used takeout? You get 33 1GB chunks in a link sent via _EMAIL_ that then I have to click on and authenticate in my browser. 33 clicks.
You can pick the maximum size of zipballs. I think the max is 10GB? Or 50GB? It’s annoying in that it can take up to a week for the first mail to reply. And you can’t automate it, so no automatic backups.
Filed an issue to remove googlephotos from rclone since removeing the library.readonly scope will completely break that. https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/8434 What a terrible decision by Google.
Rcloning a few years of old photos on Google Photos was on my todo anyway, guess that's happening this weekend.
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If I authorize an app to scrape an entire album, that’s a good thing. This isn’t more security, this is google attempting to squeeze more monetization.
No, users must be protected for their own sake. You cannot be allowed to trade off convenience for privacy. It’s too important. M
Aren't the photo frame companies able to issue firmware updates? Since the devices are internet-connected, it seems like they ought to be able to. According to the article, the new API "can... access... albums through the new Google Photos Picker API". Or maybe they don't even need firmware updates, if it's all managed via the photo frame's website. API's change, and if you make a product that uses an API, you need t…
This new API is so bad that it is breaking Google photo albums on Android TVs! No one wants to manually add each photo to a slideshow. Google Photos has AI that automatically makes themed albums, it works great. I point my TV at my family photos, new pictures of my family are automatically added as I take them, and then shown on my TV. That is how it is supposed to work. This new locked down API places all the securi…
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Have you ever used takeout? You get 33 1GB chunks in a link sent via _EMAIL_ that then I have to click on and authenticate in my browser. 33 clicks.
You can pick the maximum size of zipballs. I think the max is 10GB? Or 50GB? It’s annoying in that it can take up to a week for the first mail to reply. And you can’t automate it, so no automatic backups.
But these limits are weird because while file size limits do exist, they don't match Google's limits: 4GB is the limit for regular zip, zip64 has a limit of 16 exabytes. And TGZ's limit of 50GB shows that they they have the internal infrastructure to support building larger files too.
So, other than that most of their customers use Windows and they want to make takeout as annoying as possible, do they put that limit on it?
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Have you ever used takeout? You get 33 1GB chunks in a link sent via _EMAIL_ that then I have to click on and authenticate in my browser. 33 clicks.
You can change to archive size to 50GB per file.