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Literal Hostage Situation (europe.pub)
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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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[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't want to talk you into accidentally allowing access to all your photos. But I believe if you tap settings there, or if you long press your app icon to go to settings and then navigate to permissions, you will find the screen where you can choose never allow, always allow, and allow limited access which is the one you want.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well what do you know, it worked! Thanks!

I allowed limited access and then selected nothing. Now I can send images and videos by sharing them from elsewhere.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

Woohoo!