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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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