Fuck Google, seriously. About once a week it asks me whether I want to “backup my photos in the cloud”, and I keep clicking no, because fuck you why would I want to upload my private photos on your company servers.
But apparently I accidentally once clicked yes (maybe), because suddenly Google sends me a notification about how it created a beautiful animation of my recent photos in the cloud, offering me the option to download them. I don’t want to download my private photos from the fucking Google cloud, I never wanted them to be there in the first place! I want to click the delete button, but it’s not there: it’s either download the animation from the cloud, or close the dialog.
Of course, turning off the functionality is at least 10x more difficult than turning it on, so I get ready to spend this evening finding the advice online and configuring my phone to stop uploading my private photos to Google servers, and preferably to delete all the photos that are already there despite my wishes. Does the “delete” option even exist anymore, or is there just “move to recycle bin (where it stays for as long as we want it to stay there)”? Today I will find out.
Again, fuck Google. I hope the company burns down. I wonder what other things I have already accidentally “consented” to. Google’s idea of consent is totally rapist. And I only found this out by accident. In future, I expect to accidentally find this or some other “optional” feature turned on again.
EDIT:
Finally figured out how to delete the animation in the cloud. First, disable all cloud backup options (about a dozen of them). Then, download the animation from the cloud. Then, click to delete the downloaded animation… the app warns you that this would delete both the local and the cloud version; click ok; mission accomplished.
Fuck Google, seriously. About once a week it asks me whether I want to “backup my photos in the cloud”, and I keep clicking no, because fuck you why would I want to upload my private photos on your company servers.
But apparently I accidentally once clicked yes (maybe), because suddenly Google sends me a notification about how it created a beautiful animation of my recent photos in the cloud, offering me the option to download them. I don’t want to download my private photos from the fucking Google cloud, I never wanted them to be there in the first place! I want to click the delete button, but it’s not there: it’s either download the animation from the cloud, or close the dialog.
Of course, turning off the functionality is at least 10x more difficult than turning it on, so I get ready to spend this evening finding the advice online and configuring my phone to stop uploading my private photos to Google servers, and preferably to delete all the photos that are already there despite my wishes. Does the “delete” option even exist anymore, or is there just “move to recycle bin (where it stays for as long as we want it to stay there)”? Today I will find out.
Again, fuck Google. I hope the company burns down. I wonder what other things I have already accidentally “consented” to. Google’s idea of consent is totally rapist. And I only found this out by accident. In future, I expect to accidentally find this or some other “optional” feature turned on again.
EDIT:
Finally figured out how to delete the animation in the cloud. First, disable all cloud backup options (about a dozen of them). Then, download the animation from the cloud. Then, click to delete the downloaded animation… the app warns you that this would delete both the local and the cloud version; click ok; mission accomplished.