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I'm not following - the author asked Google Photos to give them a generic link not connected to anyone. If Google required you to login for a regular old link, I think people would be more upset. If you want to share to a specific person, you have to click share and then select that person.

All of this seems to be working as I expected.

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That is not what is happening though, sharing with one person, opens up the folder for all people with a link.

How else would you share with someone who has no @gmail account, exactly?

I am not saying it’s bad for all use cases, but it should be better communicated and optional.

If I share something with my family, who are all on Google, I would like it to ONLY be available to them. Right now there is no way to do it.

OAuth or OTP to email comes to mind for now.

I cannot wait to see how you'd explain that to your 93-year-old great-grandfather.

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