Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app access, starting July 15

Re:Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app acces... by pmlnr on Friday June 28, 2019 @05:58AM (#20302848)

Wait, that's... that's actually bad, unlike Gmail. Drive _is_ a storage endpoint, so is Photos. Not having a way to sync them is a serious issue.

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Re:Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app acces... by dpacmittal on Friday June 28, 2019 @06:54AM (#20303078)

Yeah. It's ending on July 10 - https://www.blog.google/products/photos/simplifying-google-p...

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Re:Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app acces... by yrro on Friday June 28, 2019 @10:29AM (#20304620)

To be fair I can't blame them for this--the feature is confusing (I'm pretty sure it's responsible for every photo in my account up to a point in time last year being duplicated [in a rather annoying way--they appear visually identical and have the same EXIF tags and timestamps, but are different sizes, as a result my obsessive compulsive tendency won't let me delete either]).

I presume you can still download all your photos via Google Takeout right?

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Re:Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app acces... by pmlnr on Friday June 28, 2019 @10:44AM (#20304787)

I do blame them.

Google Photos should have been a frontend for Drive from the beginning. Splitting it into another storage is wrong.

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Re:Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app acces... by ilikehurdles on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:23AM (#20305217)

Google wants the ability to promise unlimited storage without any of the responsibility of meeting that promise.

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