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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

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Literal Hostage Situation (infosec.pub)

submitted 4 weeks ago by ecrevisse@feddit.org to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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Google photos on ios is literally a hostage situation. Remove key functionalities like copying an image or editing an image unless you give them full unrestricted access to your entire photo library. (The holy grail of surveillance capitalism data). Data extortion masquerading as a service.

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[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 21 points 4 weeks ago (12 children)

I have WhatsApp on Android and have restricted its access to my photos. Every time I want to share an image I need to first select which new photos I want to give Whatsapp access to, then select the photos again to send them. Next time I tap to share an image I won't see any new photos in the options no matter how many new photos are in my gallery.

I can also share to Whatsapp from my gallery, which will prompt again the permission for this individual photo thing. Same.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (11 children)

maybe they're serving different versions of the app to different regions or something. I am 100% sure this doesn't work for me.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Glad they allow selective sharing on iOS

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago

apparently this works on Android as well, see other replies :)

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