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Literal Hostage Situation
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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.
Is this real?
I'm so used to computer-things being files I edit sovereignly on my device that I find it hard to understand the serfware.
I like your framing and terminology!
I can believe that, even on android their functionality has been declining for years. Can still edit (poorly), and copy on my slightly outdated version, but overall the experience is worse than before.
Android is not good either. Google Calendar requires access to all my contacts to run. Nope.
Android isn't really that hard to like 90% de-google, you can replace most google apps with FOSS alternatives, then disable and deny all permissions to almost all google apps, even uninstall many... you can do that all without root, without even ADB.
To get to 100%, yeah, you're gonna need ADB and root and some kind of replacement OS... but you can do a lot without it.