Showroom7561 @ Showroom7561 @lemmy.ca

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Ahhh, sweet! 👍👍👍

their eventual Ai bullshit?

OMFG, I just checked the app, and under their "Recommended apps and services" is an AI image upscale option. If this can't be done on-device, then I guarantee your photos are being used for their gain.

Another user said the older version of the app works without an account... but you need an internet connect, so that could "turn off" at any moment. This level of enshittification should be illegal.

The two edges of this sword: All of the functionality worked in the previous edition of the app without the “mandatory” account. The upshot of this is, if you grab an APK of the previous (3.2.40.36) version of the app it still works just fine sans account, because the requirement is completely artificial and your camera’s hardware has not changed.

Thank you for confirming! I do this with the GoPro Quik app, and I'd have no problem doing it here.

I have a Sony compact camera with built-in GPS. The newer models require the app for live geotagging. These are the games I refuse to play.

I would hope/assume so. If they ever decided to encrypt the SD card and force you to use the app to decrypt it, I would throw their products against the wall.

I also use Sony (and Panasonic) cameras, and both their apps just work without an account. That could change at any time, unfortunately.

One thing that could work is to use an older version of the app without updating it. I do this with GoPro Quik, since the "new" Quik app is basically one big advertisement to get you to pay for a subscription to edit your videos.

The Canon app calls on the Chrome app to be there. It's more than just the user agent, unfortunately.

If you are fine just using the camera as-is (i.e. no app features), then they still make great cameras. I don't appreciate the enshittification of their hardware via this software trap, though.

It's more than just file transfer, unfortunately.

If you want to control your camera through the app, or geotag photos... you now have to use an account that connects to Canon (and probably 1001 "partners").

For file transfer, I prefer WIFI direct connect, unless it's large video files.

But this app is used for more than file transfer, so you can't even geotag photos (for example) unless you have an account. Crazy shit, since this would strictly be between your phone and camera.

It's not that it needs a different browser agent, but it looks for the Chrome app, and forces you to have it installed (or enabled, if you've disabled it like I do).

How are you transferring these files? I understand it’s less convenient but could you maybe take the sd card out and plug it into a laptop instead?

WIFI. Way, way more convenient (before this BS) than taking out the SD card.

But this goes beyond just transferring images. If I wanted to use live view, I have to use the app. If I want to geotag photos, I have to use the app.

None of those features require Canon's servers, so it's infuriating that I have to "log in" for this nonsense.

Are you sure?

100% Canon announced this last month, ironically on April Fool's Day!. Funny, that they say it makes the experience "more convenient and enjoyable".

Yeah, it was fine before, when you'd open the app, connect to your camera, and download the images.

Whats the modelname of your camera? How are you trying to access the files?

We've got several Canon cameras, and you cannot proceed to use the app unless you log in. This isn't to allow for cloud storage or anything like this. This is to do ANYTHING through the app, including location data tagging, live view, etc.

in hopes of making amends with customers who paid about $1.50 more per loaf of bread.

Infuriating.

If I were to do some quick math:

20 years of this fraud = 1040 weeks.

My family used to buy 2–3 loaves of bread per week from their stores, so low-balling it would be around 2000 loaves.

At $1.50, they owe me well over $3000. And that doesn't include interest over 20 years, which you better believe they'd charge consumers if money was owed to them.

I think it would be impossible to fight back when there will come a time when you won't even know what is real and what is not.

It would be impossible to filter through all the content that you'll be exposed to in the future.

We can obviously try, but the vast majority of the population simply won't have the skills to defend against this new reality.

So even if it was all just fake content, misinformation, bots, and ads that will never be able to filtered out, you'd continue using it the same?

For me, I'd have no incentive whatsoever to visit a site like Lemmy or check the news if there was a good chance it was just bots making stuff up to fill space. There would be no value at that point, so I'd at least quit that.

I don't think we'll ever fully quit the internet, as it's connected to everything we touch. But the internet as it was will continue to be enshittified until it becomes unbearable to use.

To idolize a rapist. 🤡

In my case, it was that our local HVAC shop literally only sold one solution.

In hindsight, I feel like I was taken advantage of. They even replaced my water heater "for free", but I should have been given the option to buy one outright, as I'm now stuck in a rental plan that costs way more than owning it.

And had a heat pump been offered, I would like likely gone for it.

Poison your Facebook account and anything you post. Let their AI be trained on garbage so it becomes a liability.