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Re: Google change is breaking some digital photo frames

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Post by crazygringo »

nightpool wrote: post #48
crazygringo wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's still not 100% clear to me, but I definitely see what you're saying. I know there's no album reference, but it seems entirely possible that Image files returned are all from a specific album, without having to choose them one-by-one. That seems entirely consistent with the API, the only question is the actual Picker interface. If Google really has removed the ability to share all photos from a picked album, that…

Did you see the section of the doc I quoted that said albums wouldn't be shown to the user? I think that makes it clear that it's by design

Yeah but it directly contradicts where they say you can select albums. That's why it's confusing and unclear.

Re: Google change is breaking some digital photo frames

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Post by brutal_chaos_ »

> While the change is designed to make your photo library more private, it’s also breaking how digital photo frames — such as those made by Aura and Cozyla — automatically update slideshows on their devices.

> Last month, Google announced that Google Photos slideshows would soon be available as ambient displays or screensavers on more third-party devices. The feature is currently available on Google Nest displays and Google TVs.

Sounds like anti-competitive behavior with privacy as the scape goat, imho. A feature for 3rd parties stops working as Google is rolling out that same feature for their own products?

Re: Google change is breaking some digital photo frames

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Post by anonomousename »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #49
Larrikin wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a programmer you should look into Home Assistant and the self hosted community in general. You can achieve a lot and don't have to shut yourself out of legitimate technological improvements that are limited by some other company's cloud.

Increasingly, a lot of those "legitimate technological improvements" are completely destroying interoperability. Google, in particular, has been making a lot of such annoying moves in the past couple years, on Android, GSuite, WearOS, and now Photos.

Legitamate technological improvements include thread, which allows local control of devices with no cloud servers involved, which lets you use home assistant or an equivalent

Re: Google change is breaking some digital photo frames

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Post by delfinom »

IncreasePosts wrote: post #34
prepend wrote: post #11

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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.

Sure, but what if you want to let an app have a single picture of you for a profile pic, but the only permission you can grant is "can view all of my photos", and then the app uploads all of your photos to their server?

Good thing the existing API let you restrict it to "can view specific album" already.

Now google is making it cancerous and awful and making it specific photos only. Probably to sell a yet to be announced photo frame lol.

Re: Google change is breaking some digital photo frames

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Post by NoMoreNicksLeft »

com2kid wrote: post #45
NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #28

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Is it a huge net loss for Google though?

I'm paying for their photo service. If their photo service gets dumbed down to become a simple file store, it makes it easier for me to migrate to a different photo storage service.

Their internet services are just a hobby. Their money comes from advertising. You're not a customer, you're livestock for the marketers. Me too, come to that.

Re: Google change is breaking some digital photo frames

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Post by ycombinatrix »

philips wrote: post #17

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.

check out this project: https://github.com/rclone/gphotosdl

Re: Google change is breaking some digital photo frames

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Post by ycombinatrix »

alabastervlog wrote: post #25
philips wrote: post #17

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.

Looks like it doesn't take effect for another ten days? Rcloning a few years of old photos on Google Photos was on my todo anyway, guess that's happening this weekend.

Takeout could also be an option

Re: Google change is breaking some digital photo frames

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Post by ycombinatrix »

brutal_chaos_ wrote: post #53

> While the change is designed to make your photo library more private, it’s also breaking how digital photo frames — such as those made by Aura and Cozyla — automatically update slideshows on their devices. > Last month, Google announced that Google Photos slideshows would soon be available as ambient displays or screensavers on more third-party devices. The feature is currently available on Google Nest displays and…

same MO as manifest V3

Re: Google change is breaking some digital photo frames

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Post by pavel_lishin »

ycombinatrix wrote: post #58
alabastervlog wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like it doesn't take effect for another ten days? Rcloning a few years of old photos on Google Photos was on my todo anyway, guess that's happening this weekend.

Takeout could also be an option

That's what I use to export photos. It's bad in almost every way, except for the fact that it works.
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