All I had to do to turn my phone into a stealth Google Photos uploader was to turn on the backup sync, then uninstall the app. Whereas one might reasonably believe uninstalling the app from the phone would stop photos from uploading automatically to Google Photos, the device still does it even in the app’s absence. Since making this discovery, I have re-created the issue multiple times in multiple settings on my Galaxy S5.
So, you delete Google Photos and it continues to upload your photos without your consent. Perfect.
so the uninstall bit for Google Photos should also at least disable the process (I forget the old unix term for this) that does the actual work vs the config – which is probably all the app does.
… would that be “cron”?
cron would run the shell script that does the uploads… might not be exactly that, but something close… At best Google is no better at delivering a stable release than Adobe is, at worst they’re sneaky sob’s. After the cookie bypass bs, I tend to go with the latter…
Google totally gets the cloud. That’s what I’ve been told.
Man if this was an iCloud problem the Internet would blow up!
“makes me not trust Google”
It took their photos app to make him realise that?
Oh, they do, as evidenced by this backup. The question is, why? The answer? More data, more data.
Do no evil. At least don’t appear to do evil.
I mean, we are only backing up the data, right?
That’s solved by making the apps impossible to delete.