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Google's wording says it will not use data from these services for ads "unless you choose to make data from these services available to other Google services that support personalized ads."
Commenters argued over what counts as choosing, given how many Google products nag you to turn sharing on.
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Version 3.0 is a real step: non-destructive crop/rotate/adjust on mobile, a Workflows automation engine, HLS on-the-fly transcoding, and integrity checks that catch missing or mismatched files. Breaking changes hit third-party integrations.
Encryption was the fault line. Several users said the lack of E2EE is why they picked Ente instead. A contrarian pushed back hard: for a home photo library, end-to-end encryption is arguably pointless — lose your keys and you lose the only copy of grandma. The sharpest bug report was an operator finding 20% of his disk eaten by duplicated per-user thumbnails.
