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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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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Not that google isn't capable of epic evil, but have you considered they the might just be completely fucking incompetent at IOS apps :)

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Does iOS have per file permissions? I don't think you can blame Google for something the OS can't do.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Currently working on a better script to import all my Google Takeout images into Immich. If anyone wants to help, I can publish it on GitHub. I’ve currently got it sorting all the photos correctly, and now I need to combine the still and live versions into one photo.

I’m doing this because the current import project doesn’t work well. It goes on basically filename alone, which has a lot of problems with a big complicated library like my own. I’ve used all of iCloud, Google Photos, and Immich at different points and together, so there are tons of duplicate files.

This is a particularly hard problem because Google Takeout names files in the most convoluted way. You might have a photo called Photo1.jpg and a metadata file called Photo1.supplemental-meta.json, which is fine, but then a photo called MeAndTheWifeAtTheBeach(1).jpg and a metadata file called MeAndTheWifeAtTheBeach.supplemental-m(1).json. Then you could also have a live version that doesn’t have its own metadata file. And these might exist in different folders. The current import project doesn’t take any of this into account.

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