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So Google is now preventing people from removing location data from photos taken with Pixel phones. (mediacdn.aus.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ajsadauskas@aus.social to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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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

#technology #tech @technology #business #enshitification #Android #Google @pluralistic #infosec

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[–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Get a PinePhone Pro. It can do all of those things. I'm typing on mine now with the keyboard case.

[–] butter@lemmy.jamestrey.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have a non pro pinephone. But it's been a minute since I've used it. Where is it at with software? If I go home and update it all the way, which is the most usable OS?

I'd love to make the switch

[–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I haven't tried all the available OSes recently, but I've been happy with postmarketOS lately after having used Arch for a while. I switched to pmOS as I was also using it on the OnePlus 6T. I ended up going back to my PinePhone Pro for daily driving due to some call audio bugs with the OP6T. On the OG PinePhone, it is pretty usable but slow. On the Pro, it's faster but cameras don't work. Battery life isn't great on either PinePhone though.