So Google is now preventing people from removing location data from photos taken with Pixel phones.
Remember when Google’s corporate motto was “don’t be evil?”
Obviously, accurate location data on photos is more useful to a data mining operation like Google.
From Google: “Important: You can only update or remove estimated locations. If the location of a photo or video was automatically added by your camera, you can’t edit or remove the location.”
It’s enshitification in action.
Source: https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6153599?hl=en&sjid=8103501961576262529-AP
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You should look into nextcloud. It’s like google photos, but self hosted. It’s pretty good.
@aeternum @petrescatraian there’s also @ente 😬 (I’m not affiliated with them in any way)
Dang, that looks pretty good. I’d prefer self hosted though.