Google will delete new accounts' data by default in 18 months

Re:Google will delete new accounts' data by default in 18 mo... by oefrha on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:23PM (#23643065)

“Bathroom selfies” is just a tongue-in-cheek way to refer to frequent photo takers. If you’re somehow offended, I apologize, what the hell.

I don’t need to remember my hotel room number or parking garage zone or bus stop every day. Even when I do I don’t need a photo, sorry, got a pretty good memory, and a digital notebook too. Under-utilize, sure, whatever, it’s my fucking phone and I didn’t ask you to judge. The fact is me and a whole host of people I know who don’t snap photos frequently enough (yeah, been talking to quite some friends about how we’ve basically been spending a fair bit of money on cameras that we don’t use very much) won’t get “the same functionality” as you were claiming, so I hope you’re not on a design panel for something like this where people who don’t conform to your expected usage pattern just get a FU.

Also: who the hell keep those parking garage photos around?

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Re:Google will delete new accounts' data by default in 18 mo... by inetknght on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:44PM (#23643353)

> Also: who the hell keep those parking garage photos around?

Storage is cheap. Having the image for some currently-undefined later use can be invaluable. Never using it later is cheaper than the opportunity cost of knowing it was there but now isn't.

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Re:Google will delete new accounts' data by default in 18 mo... by toast0 on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:32PM (#23643182)

> Also: who the hell keep those parking garage photos around?

I do! Although, that's because I don't take a lot of pictures, and I look at them even less, so they just accumulate. But it's rarely become a space issue (because I'm not taking many), so whatever. The act of taking the picture seals the memory, so I don't usually have to look.

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