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Google photos on ios is literally a hostage situation. Remove key functionalities like copying an image or editing an image unless you give them full unrestricted access to your entire photo library. (The holy grail of surveillance capitalism data). Data extortion masquerading as a service.

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[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The basic photos app on iOS does all that on device

[–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They follow the same privacy standards as Google in the USA. Sure they don't sell ads but the real issue imo is warrantless requests for that info for the government.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You can literally disable iCloud and still use it all. No privacy standards will matter, it’ll stay in your device.

[–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's not what I want. I want it infexed and searchable, backed up, and easily shareable.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

It is indexed and searchable locally, you can share with the share button to anywhere you like.

It just won’t be backed up to iCloud.