Updates to the Google Photos API: Read-Only Scopes Deprecated(developers.google.com) |
Updates to the Google Photos API: Read-Only Scopes Deprecated(developers.google.com) |
in other words, no possible way to create third party gallery apps.
> Do not make a substitute for Google Photos. For example, do not use the APIs to create a general purpose photo gallery app.
And any attempt to make life better for ourselves is met by felony anti;-crcumvention charges. The legal system has been stacked against humankind.
It seems like it will affect gphotos-sync, which I have been using reliably for years to backup all my photos...
https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync
Does anybody have good alternatives? I'm quite used to taking photos on my phone and feeling confident they will be backed up from Google Photos. This convenience is one of the few reasons why I still use Google stuff. I even ditched Gmail years ago.
Fuck you, Google.
why would they need to do that anyway? I wholeheartedly agree with "If your app relies on accessing the user's entire library, you may need to re-evaluate your app".
(Otherwise, I feel like you are just muddying up the discussion by trying to focus on the branding of specific APIs on different platforms rather than on what functionality is being offered, as if it matters what the APIs are called. Again: if I want to run an app--as many people do--which can incrementally slurp up all of my photos from Google Photos to store elsewhere, I should get to do so, the same way Google writes an app that slurps up all photos in my iOS photos library. If Google wants to shut down access to photos stored in their system without at least acknowledging the hypocrisy, that's pretty awful of them.)