How badly would this affect graphine os?
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kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
one less reason to buy a Pixel, well done Google!
cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
metaphortune@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I don’t have any actual research, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the Pixel itself doesn’t really make money at all. One of those “get people hardcore into the Google ecosystem to get their money/data” things.
ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The absolutely criminal dark patterns that they pull on people via Google photos auto backup is insane.
Just in my own orbit 2 of my friends wives, my parents, and my in-laws all wound up paying Google because they thought they had to or lose all their photos. We helped most of them disconnect the autobackup (that they didn’t even know was activated) and move it to offline safely. But that was the most downright evil shit Google has ever done and literally a fire in me for manipulating the elderly and less tech savvy so blatantly.
Supernova1051@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
devil’s avocado: this move has saved many people’s cherished photos from disappearing by having them auto save. before Google photos I’d run into cases (I used to do home IT support) where people had years of family photos disappear because they didn’t back them up properly. Having to communicate what happened was never fun.
is Google photos perfect? No, but it’s a great solution for people who don’t want to manage their data.
ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yes, but that shouldn’t explicitly opt in, and they shouldn’t marry that product to Gmail and Google Drive if they are going to push it to enable by default.
Again, it’s really insidious. They push it so aggressively I had to disable it on my personal device twice, and I can’t just not use Google Photos app because it’s tied to the camera itself on pixel phones.