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0 pointssmoldesu3y ago0 comments

Google doesn't scan photos that don't exist on their servers.

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Trusting a dubious central authority up until you get burned is a bad heuristic.

b1123y ago

Especially when Google has said "we won't do thing X", then been caught already doing it, or just silently starting to do it.

Just location tracking. The lies. Over, and over, and over, and over again the lies.

maxbond3y ago

Institutions of that nature are incapable of following through on nearly any promise made to the public at large; every promise is a lie, whether they break it or not, because they can't be said to have the intention to uphold it.

I see no reason not to believe that Page and Brin sincerely desired Google not to be evil; but it's the institution decides to do evil, not any individual, so they did not have (or could not maintain, as the organization scaled) the power to guarantee this. No one does.

sgregnt3y ago

What's the difference? Potentially apple itself can fecide to scan all your photos on the phone....

soulofmischief3y ago

I don't use an iPhone, and I use an aftermarket Android ROM.

smoldesuOP3y ago

I agree, which is why I don't pay for cloud storage.

junon3y ago· 3 in thread

Fun fact, Xiaomi does by default on their stock OS.

coffeeblack3y ago

Who would allow the CCP to scan their device?

junon3y ago

There wasn't anything to deny. There's no way to opt out.

midislack3y ago

What difference does it make anyway at this point? Everybody does it.

squeaky-clean3y ago

It immediately presented me with a screen with the choice to "save originals to cloud or save a compressed version to the cloud" (I don't recall the exact words) with no option to not upload to the cloud, and then immediately started uploading my library.

I scrolled back and checked some pre-2015 photos, they look fine, and then deleted the app.

balaji13y ago

> water stain with massive discoloration

Maybe they store physical photos and the albums got soaked in water. Sadly it happened to all our 90s photo albums during a flood. Some of the photos were stained really bad.

sixothree3y ago

I'm not sure I believe this _at all_.

I uploaded a photo to google maps. A week later it found some random picture of a local park and offered up a notification suggesting that I upload this photo to the destination it had located in the maps app.

How on earth are they doing this without "scanning" the photo? Seriously, please tell me.

tinus_hn3y ago

A typical feature of these cloud drives is automatic uploading of pictures from the camera roll, that’s the legitimate use case for demanding access to all pictures. Who knows when Google whoops! accidentally makes that the default. You know, it’s optional, you can just turn it off!

pmlnr3y ago

How do you know? With full access, it's basically impossible to tell.

choppaface3y ago

Which is why it’s obnoxious to ask permissions for all photos.

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