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They also just totally fucked anybody making use of the Google Photos API to access their own data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41604241

They're a trash company, and anything you get from them, even when you pay for the storage, is at best accidentally delivered to you and they could roll over in their sleep at any moment and snuff it all out.

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don't forget the time everyone's Google Drive photos got corrupted

Even grosser is that they explicitly limited the iOS version of Google Photos to refuse to work with scoped access. So on iOS the app will refuse to work without being granted whole library access, a permission that Google no longer allows to any third party photo app on Android. Blatantly anticompetitive.

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