Updates to the Google Photos API: Read-Only Scopes Deprecated

&quot;If your app relies on accessing the user&#x27;s entire library, you may need to re-evaluate your app or consider alternative approaches.&quot;<p>in other words, no possible way to create third party gallery apps.

It&#x27;s just so shitty living in an age where software gets worse and worse, where every decision is made by fuedal lords who get to revise their grants ongoingly however they want.<p>And any attempt to make life better for ourselves is met by felony anti;-crcumvention charges. The legal system has been stacked against humankind.

This is really inconvenient for me as well.<p>It seems like it will affect gphotos-sync, which I have been using reliably for years to backup all my photos...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gilesknap&#x2F;gphotos-sync">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gilesknap&#x2F;gphotos-sync</a><p>Does anybody have good alternatives? I&#x27;m quite used to taking photos on my phone and feeling confident they will be backed up from Google Photos. This convenience is one of the few reasons why I still use Google stuff. I even ditched Gmail years ago.

Flames... Flames from the side of my face. This is an absolute user hostile &quot;Go Fuck Yourself&quot; by Google. There is now no way for a user to enumerate and incrementally back up their photos (read: access their own data). Your application would only be able to see either photos that you create with the backup tool, or that you have explicitly shared with it by hand.<p>Fuck you, Google.