On 2015-08-14 6:10 , Eric Weir wrote:
As one poster on the Flickr help forum suggested, auto upload should have been an opt-in not an op-out feature. Why anyone would want ALL the photos they take uploaded to Flickr is beyond me. The assumption seems to be that every photo we take is perfect.
i have the Flickr app on my iPhone; i just signed in with it yesterday as a test for this thread; i don't believe it asked me about auto-uploads, and it's not doing auto-uploads; there's nothing new on my Flickr account since 2011; i see in the app the control to "Turn Auto-Uploadr On" — it's pretty clearly an opt-in
i just used the Flickr extension to upload a photo from my iPhone's camera roll; it asked me which destination album and uploaded the one image with no further interaction; this didn't turn on auto-uploads
there are plenty of people who would want all their photos uploaded — for some the cloud is the only place they manage their photos; and multiple services are competing to auto-upload all your photos, since if all your photos are with a service, it creates some lock-in for other services or paying for more storage
Apple supplies the same type of service with iCloud Photo Library, or just the most recent photos with Photo Stream
my partner recently discovered Dropbox was auto-uploading everything on her phone; i'm pretty sure she okayed it without realizing it; we get too used to clicking OK, and the services have an incentive to make the "opt-in" as frictionless as possible
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