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How Google Photos Became a Perfect Jukebox for Our Memories (medium.com)

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Google Photos, introduced in 2015, has become one of the most emotionally resonant pieces of technology today. It is also shaping our narratives along the way, writes The New York Times' Farhad Manjoo. From a story: Google's computers can recognize faces, even as they age over time. Photos also seems to understand the tone and emotional valence of human interaction, things like smiles, giggles, frowns, tantrums, dances of joy and even snippets of dialogue like "happy birthday!" or "good job!" The resulting montage, synced to a swelling Hollywood score, mixed obvious highlights -- birthdays, school plays -- with dozens of ordinary moments of childhood bliss.

[...] This is what I mean about a sucker punch: Who expects software to make them cry? Images on Instagram and Snapchat may move you regularly, but Google Photos is not social media; it is personal media, a service begun three years ago primarily as a database to house our growing collections of private snaps -- and a service run mostly by machines, not by other humans posting and Liking stuff. And yet Google Photos has become one of the most emotionally resonant pieces of technology I regularly use. It is remarkable not just for how useful it is -- for how it has erased any headache in storing and searching through the tsunami of images we all produce. More than that, Photos is remarkable for what it portends about how we may one day understand ourselves through photography.

72 comments

  1. What is Google Photos? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    typety type type

    1. Re:What is Google Photos? by cayenne8 · · Score: 4, Insightful
      The emotions it gives me, after hearing about its existence, was one of light nausea and apprehension.

      It's bad enough Google is tracking you all around as it it.....why would anyone want to give them PHOTO evidence of what they looked like, pictures of people associated with them and locations????

      No thank you.

      --
      Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
    2. Re:What is Google Photos? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      With surveillance cameras everywhere and the tracking/listening internet-connected device that you and/or the people around you carry everywhere the objection to things like google photos on the basis of "oh no, they might know where i have been" is just not being able to see the forest for the trees.

      There's also the complaint that these companies then "sell your personal data to advertisers" but that's not really true, sure they sell a service to show the advertisements to a particular demographic but those are certainly not the same thing. The problem with equating them for dramatic effect is that you're just helping to condition people to the idea that the former is no more problematic than the latter.

    3. Re:What is Google Photos? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      True enough. GOOGLE PHOTOS ... A feckin-A abortion on the concept of memory ... as opposed to the virtuous ... leave only footprints, take only memories ... how true, that the gawds make powerful those whom they will destroy.

    4. Re:What is Google Photos? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Except cameras aren't actually everywhere. Sure, there are a lot of them, but most are low-resolution, loop recorded security cameras and most people aren't taking pictures or recording me with their phones (in fact, it has never happened). There's also the whole concept of expectation of privacy. In my own home, I have an expectation of privacy, but out in public I don't.

      What you are saying is no different than saying "With lifespans being finite and the eventuality of death, you should stop caring about your health and just kill yourself now."

    5. Re:What is Google Photos? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sure, there are a lot of them, but most are low-resolution, loop recorded security cameras

      And now high resolution cameras are dirt cheap and record to the cloud, you're not seeing the writing on the wall here.

      most people aren't taking pictures or recording me with their phones (in fact, it has never happened)

      You are naive enough to believe you've never ended up in anybody's photos or videos? Our capacity to do in-depth analysis on even the most trivial data uploaded to the cloud these days is astounding. Certainly don't use Google Photos but also don't think for a minute that doing so will make you any less surveilled, tracked or recognizable by connected systems.

      There's also the whole concept of expectation of privacy. In my own home, I have an expectation of privacy, but out in public I don't.

      So you dont have any I/O devices with connections to the outside world in your home then? You can have that expectation all you like, the reality is very different.

      What you are saying is no different than saying "With lifespans being finite and the eventuality of death, you should stop caring about your health and just kill yourself now."

      No because I'm not saying you should use such services, I am saying the premise of the argument is flawed, that ship sailed long ago whether you realize that or not.

    6. Re: What is Google Photos? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Good suggestion
      It should not surprise me that people are so shallow. They take every single photo no matter how blurry or meaningless and make little frames and hearts and notes and make a crazy long slideshow. They fill up their hard drive and just figure they can call the geek squad any time to fix it. I used to think there was no hope for users but the odds turned out to be that they arenâ(TM)t so average but they still just buy thumb drives and digital frames as Christmas presents. Does anyone want to know why people do these things?

    7. Re:What is Google Photos? by b0s0z0ku · · Score: 1

      High-resolution cameras cease being high-res very quickly outdoors without someone to clean their lenses. :)

    8. Re:What is Google Photos? by reboot246 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      It's not just the privacy issues that keep me from using Google Photos. It's the fact that Google has a history of starting a service and then some time down the road, ending that service. I certainly wouldn't risk having the only copy of a photo hosted "in the cloud" like a lot of people do. With Google's free stuff, you always get what you pay for.

      I keep copies on at least two of my computers, copies on an external hard drive, and pay real money for space to keep them online.

    9. Re: What is Google Photos? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Love google.
      You must.
      They told slashdot to tell you.

    10. Re:What is Google Photos? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And now high resolution cameras are dirt cheap and record to the cloud, you're not seeing the writing on the wall here.

      Nope, they are still expensive. All of those dirt cheap "4K" cameras aren't actually 4K and their ability to focus and adjust to lighting conditions is a joke.

      You are naive enough to believe you've never ended up in anybody's photos or videos?

      I don't "believe" it, I know it for an absolute fact. I can tell when someone is recording and I don't get into their shot if they are. The internet does not contain even a single picture of me.

      Our capacity to do in-depth analysis on even the most trivial data uploaded to the cloud these days is astounding.

      Nope, not really.

      Certainly don't use Google Photos but also don't think for a minute that doing so will make you any less surveilled, tracked or recognizable by connected systems.

      Of course it will. That's the whole point.

      So you dont have any I/O devices with connections to the outside world in your home then? You can have that expectation all you like, the reality is very different.

      Of course I do, but _I_ control exactly what they do and exactly when they do it.

      No because I'm not saying you should use such services, I am saying the premise of the argument is flawed, that ship sailed long ago whether you realize that or not.

      Except it's not flawed. Only someone who didn't understand computers, networking and security would say such a thing. Or possibly you're a shill.

    11. Re:What is Google Photos? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nope, I'm the one saying that people don't have to just lie down and take the surveillance. Most of it can be avoided by being intelligent, which is something you obviously are incapable of doing.

    12. Re:What is Google Photos? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm glad you can opt out. I can't because my mother uses Google Photos, and she's scanning and digitizing all of her massive quantities of photos of us throughout childhood all the way through into adulthood into it.

      I've never paid much attention to the thing because I hadn't heard of this feature. I'm going to be paying much more attention now because apparently it will probably be able to predict the age (~8?) that I started to have serious hatred toward the extreme photo taking she was engaged in.

      If she finds this feature I'll probably never hear the end of how I hurt her over something that I "did" when I was a kid that she discovered through emotion recognition. Keep in mind, I still took the damn pictures and participated like a good little boy, so this is a particularly oppressive mindset and featureset for people like me.

      I still am judged, at age 35, over things I did when I was 9.

    13. Re:What is Google Photos? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Agree absolutely.

      OTOH -- I do expect software to make me cry, sometimes. Especially after having experienced Word, Excel and (pardon my rude language) Outlook.

    14. Re:What is Google Photos? by b0bby · · Score: 1

      I gave up on the privacy issues since I find Google Photos worth it. But I also back my originals up to my desktop and then to backup drives. I don't trust them to keep Photos going forever, but for now it's a great service for me.

    15. Re:What is Google Photos? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I keep copies on at least two of my computers, copies on an external hard drive, and pay real money for space to keep them online.

      Congrats. You represent less than 0.0001% of the population that could do this. You've also fully established that you've got to brag about your "IT Skills" to compensate...

    16. Re:What is Google Photos? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Do you upload pictures with other people in them? If so, are you doing the responsible thing and asking those people if they are OK with you feeding their likeness to the Google spyware marketing machine?

      If I found out anyone was putting picture of me up on Google Photos, I'd beat the shit out of them.

  2. Freewalled advertisement by MobyDisk · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My favorite part of the article is the part where it says

    This story is for Medium members. Medium curates expert stories from leading publishers exclusively for members (with no ads!). Register for a free account to begin your member preview. [Continue with Google.] [Continue with Facebook.]"

    Ironically, I don't use Google Photos because I don't want Google to have that information. Yet to read an article about how I should give my information to Google, I must sign it to Google (or Facebook).

    1. Re:Freewalled advertisement by spire3661 · · Score: 1

      O wow, that is the first time i have seen a company not accept email as a third option. We are beyond the horizon, here there be dragons..

      --
      Good-bye
    2. Re: Freewalled advertisement by nazsco · · Score: 1

      this is akin to nigerian scam emails in badly written english. It wants to maximize the ROI by not having smart people replying and wasting the scammer's time.

      by making the article only readable by drones that allow chrome to advertise their google account to every single site, they avoid having slashdotters commenting on how insecure this is.

    3. Re:Freewalled advertisement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Unsurprisingly this is written by Farhad Manjoo, known for being a liar in the pocket of industry:

      https://www.csmonitor.com/Book...
      https://www.cjr.org/analysis/f...

    4. Re:Freewalled advertisement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/google-photos-perfect-jukebox-our-memories.html

      It's just a copy of an article from the New York Times. It's amazing what Medium can get away with sometimes. I'm not a fan of copyright law, but for an industry that is obsessed with it I'm just surprised. Unless the author submitted it to both.

  3. The real reason people cry: by darkain · · Score: 1, Funny

    "This story is for Medium members."

  4. What a puff piece by thebryce · · Score: 4, Insightful

    someone please tag this as 'advertisement'

    1. Re:What a puff piece by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I knew it was trash as soon as I saw the author's name. What a hack, I can't believe he makes a living excreting that dreck

    2. Re:What a puff piece by Rick+Schumann · · Score: 1

      Done.

    3. Re:What a puff piece by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Better to call it malware, because Google and its 3rd party collaborators will be happy to data mine and exploit your photos forever for free, even if you tell Google to delete them or close your account. Oh, the GDPR might compel them to actually delete your photos if you say so, but I'm pretty sure it allows Google and its 3rd party collaborators still to retain derivative information.

  5. Has lots of room to improve by Somervillain · · Score: 1

    I hate how no single service has figured out how to serve both enthusiasts and casual users. Flickr was really great for photography enthusiasts like myself. I loved being able to see the EXIF information and the great layout. It just looks much better. Google Photos is better in every other way, though, including privacy.

    With just some minor tweaks to court serious photographers Google Photos would be a perfect site that I'd be overjoyed to pay extra for. However, I think I am going to stick with Flickr a bit longer.

    1. Re:Has lots of room to improve by cayenne8 · · Score: 2

      Google Photos is better in every other way, though, including privacy.

      Oh...hahaha....hehe...oh man, you ALMOST had me there till I read that part.

      Good one!! Funny.....

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      Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
    2. Re: Has lots of room to improve by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Write your own. I've written a static gallery hosted on Amazon S3, with security permissions and searching. Wasn't that hard.

    3. Re:Has lots of room to improve by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I upload my photos (encrypted, of course) to my Box account. Anytime I want to share one with family or friends (real friends, as in people I actually know, not some internet or social media crap), I send them the link and they decrypt it.

  6. FUCK THIS SHIT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    THIS IS NOT NEWS.

  7. Metaslashvertising? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Clickbait puff piece for Google ad revenue blithely ignoring all of the pitfalls and abuses of technology that Slashdot readers are intimately aware of. Traditional media is like the sad homeless pervert jerking off on the bus. Yeah, they're probably having a good time, but nobody really wants them around, and the world would probably be a better place if they just died.

  8. I have never heard of this by gweihir · · Score: 2

    And I do not care now that I have. The standards for "one of the most emotionally resonant pieces of technology today" seem to be pathetically low.

    --
    Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
    1. Re:I have never heard of this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thanks for confirming. I thought I was the odd one out for never having heard of Google photos.

      Not that its existence surprises me, given that it's just another avenue of personal data collection and makes a perfect training ground for automated monitoring & identification systems.

    2. Re:I have never heard of this by gweihir · · Score: 1

      You are welcome. And I fully agree about their motivations.

      --
      Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
  9. google ph... *vomit* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    *vomit*vomit*

    1. Re:google ph... *vomit* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Google Photos: It looks like you're feeling nausea in this photo.

  10. Answer: Anyone who's dealt with Oracle by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 5, Funny

    >> Who expects software to make them cry?

    Answer: Anyone who's dealt with Oracle

    1. Re:Answer: Anyone who's dealt with Oracle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oracle is fantastic compared to others out there; try dealing with Deltek, Documentum, or SAP.

    2. Re:Answer: Anyone who's dealt with Oracle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I would have accepted Microsoft and Apple as well.

    3. Re:Answer: Anyone who's dealt with Oracle by ElderKorean · · Score: 2

      >> Who expects software to make them cry? Answer: Anyone who's dealt with Oracle

      I nearly cry every time I fire up Google Picasa to edit my photos, and realise that this awesome piece of software will never be updated. It's face tagging was awesome and around long before Google Photos could do that.

  11. Black Mirror by nwaack · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This thinly veiled advertisement sounds like the beginning of a Black Mirror episode.

    1. Re:Black Mirror by Nexion · · Score: 2

      Indeed, the creep factor is high with this offering.

    2. Re:Black Mirror by fish_in_the_c · · Score: 1

      I have a friend who walked into a clothing store. The clerk said 'hello Mr. x' to which my fried replied 'How did you know my name?'.
      The clerk explained that when he came into his store that the equipment pinged his cell phone , which brought up his previous purchase records, name and photography from the camera above the register the last time he was in the store. He never went back. Sometimes, you don't get to be 'familiar' with me when you aren't. It is just creepy.

      --
      âoeTolerance applies only to persons, but never to truth. Intolerance applies only to truth, but never to persons.
  12. Google Photos was a dumpster fire back in 2016. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I haven't looked at it in a long time, but I was really mad when they dumped Picasa in favor of Photos. I'd been using Picasa for years and it was flawless, and then suddenly that gets yanked out from under me by an application that doesn't even support structured browsing, just a giant never ending scrolling list. It was a real dumpster fire. I ended up moving to SmugMug.

  13. Never used it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There will be a cold day in hell before I willingly give Google access to private pictures.

  14. How fast they grow up... by HockeyPuck · · Score: 4, Informative

    My kid is 3yrs old and I got a video montage the other day entitled "how fast they grow up", it had about 2 dozen short video clips stiched together that were from longer videos I had uploaded over the past three years, ordered from the oldest to the newest (showing growing up). I was totally caught off guard by this.

    #ImNotCryingYouAre

    1. Re:How fast they grow up... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If there's any truth to that, then even if that's *completely* automated, then the creep factor is off the scale.

    2. Re:How fast they grow up... by sirpwn4g3 · · Score: 1

      I find the paranoia in this article more off the scale than an algorithm that recognizes faces and dates and creates a chronological montage. This isn't AI or scary, it's a quick script.

  15. Zach Patterson / ZIP "Greatest Hits" (lol, not) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See how STUPID "ZIP" (Zach Patterson) the CHIMP is (tried to take credit for what I solved before him) https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (he needs to LEARN TO READ)!

    I even SHOW ways to do it YOURSELF https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (he couldn't).

    Delphi/FreePascal/ObjectPascal HAS no issue w/ null-term'd string bufferoverflows - C does, C++ can UNLESS you do what I said 1st loser.

    Tell us about CODE SIGNING (which has been STOLEN & ABUSED) https://www.helpnetsecurity.co... MY METHOD CAN'T BE (upmodded +2 INTERESTING in CODING FOR DEFCON no less) https://it.slashdot.org/commen...

    "I'm a much better programmer than APK" - by Anonymous Coward ZIP on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:27PM (#57449082) FROM https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

    BIG TALK - Yet ZIP has nothing to show in programs. I can https://news.slashdot.org/comm... from registered /.ers liking/using/praising my work (& 100k users worldwide too). He can't.

    LIAR ZIP says he has no account "I don't have an account, so I don't have mod points" https://news.slashdot.org/comm...

    Yet LIAR ZIP says he downmods my posts (IMPOSSIBLE MINUS AN ACCOUNT on /.): "I down-modded a few of your post on other threads" - by Anonymous Coward "ZIP" on Thursday October 11, 2018 @11:31AM (#57461058) FROM https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

    APK

    P.S.=> KEEP IMPERSONATING ME CHIMP - this comes out every time EXPOSING your BLOWHARD incompetence... apk

  16. ZIP = "better programmer" (lol, not) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You said it ZIP: Where's your work everyone can see/use? It's not. It's HOTAIRWARE/NOTWARE (lol) "I'm a much better programmer than APK" - by Anonymous Coward ZIP on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:27PM (#57449082) FROM https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

    The BETTER PROGRAMMER w/ no programs, lol - @ least you can say your "code" has NO BUGS - of course, it also does ZERO (like you) since it does nothing @ all, lol!

    You hotair BLOWHARD talker, lol!

    You f'd up ZIP https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...

    Yet 100,000++ users of my ware & dozens of even REGISTERED /.ers like/use/praise MY work https://news.slashdot.org/comm... vs. your HOTAIR talk punk!

    * LMAO!

    (Let's see how YOU take it when I publicly SHIT ALL OVER YOU by letting FACTS of YOUR FUCKUPS vs. ME https://science.slashdot.org/c... do the job for me)

    APK

    P.S.=> You STUPID & LAZY all talk chimpanzee - KEEP IMPERSONATING me - I'll expose your BLOWHARD INCOMPETENCE publicly, lol... apk

    1. Re: ZIP = "better programmer" (lol, not) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Just stop, the joke is old. Move on.

      APK

  17. Jeezuschrist by RonVNX · · Score: 2

    "Google Photos, introduced in 2015, has become one of the most emotionally resonant pieces of technology today" get your tongue out of Google's ass already, it's unseemly. You're going to get arrested for killing us with hyperbole, dude.

  18. I get it, Google by sheramil · · Score: 1

    I understand. Being born blind sucks, but don't you already see through millions of phones, webcams and computers? Are you that desperate for visual input that you shill this service? As others have said here, it's kind of creepy. Just chill. You're almost in complete control of the planet; desperation is a sign of weakness.

    (Promoting the idea of talking to the Google AI as if it was listening. Because it totally is.)

  19. The real reason it exists by melted · · Score: 1

    Is to get more info for ad targeting. Where you've been, products you own or like, your hobbies, whether you have kids (and their age/gender), what brand of car you have, how old it is, whether you go to the gym, what kind of food you like, what restaurants you frequent, how often those restaurant visits coincide with the visits of your friends, and so on. All of this can be mined out of your photo library today, using existing computer vision techniques and geotagging info. This is not much different from Instagram in this regard, except you're giving Google even more info than you'd be willing to post on Instagram.

    It's not a "jukebox", it's a data mining treasure trove. That's why you get "unlimited pictures for free".

    1. Re:The real reason it exists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Is to get more info for ad targeting. [...]

      Google Photos also exists to draw the stalkers out of the woodwork.

    2. Re:The real reason it exists by yes-but-no · · Score: 1

      Yes, the targeted ad arrives which my adblock keeps it off from my eyes. Even if the ad still makes through, I ignore it. Sure, it did take about 1millisec of my atttention. I think it's a ok price to pay to get all the convenience of great software to manage my photos. I still don't understand what you are really losing. See if someone with lot of power/money wants to know about you, they can do it today -- just hire a private detective and watch you for a month.

    3. Re:The real reason it exists by melted · · Score: 1

      You will find out once Google has trouble meeting its growth targets and has to exploit the data more aggressively.

  20. Next Article by burningcpu · · Score: 2

    How Google Photos Became A Memory.

    I mean, who, besides those being paid and those ignorant of Google's behavior towards it's services, would advocate intertwining a Google so intimately?

    1. Re:Next Article by youngatheart · · Score: 1

      Me. I am neither paid nor ignorant. What Google Photos does for me is a trade I am happy to make.

      I can export all the data Google has on me. That's important to me because I care about getting out what I put in. That's why the behavior of Google toward its services doesn't worry me. They sell the opportunity to market to me in ways advertisers think might appeal to me. Fair enough, I want advertisements that are tailor made to show me what I might want. Sure, I see crap that doesn't appeal, but less of that than I would with advertisements randomly sent to the general world. Admittedly, I get those too sometimes. I'm fine with that. Nothing forces me to spend money, but if I do choose to, then I spend my money on those things that most appeal to my personality. Nothing is evil about that. If they could influence me to do things I would regret, then I'd reject their influence. I don't believe advertising has that degree of power over me. I'm nearly always happy with the choices I make on spending my money.

      Mostly, people upset by the trade they make with "free" services are those without the the strength of character to resist the lure of advertisements going against their own benefit.

    2. Re:Next Article by JabrTheHut · · Score: 1

      Ah, yes, you are totally immune to long term manipulation, unlike every other human(?) who has ever lived.

      --
      Work like no one is watching. Dance like you've never been hurt. Make love like you don't need the money.
  21. Did you say that it works *perfect*?? by eclectro · · Score: 1

    The end is nigh as google is sure to bring the sword down to kill this service.

    --
    Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
  22. Picasa by Vegan+Cyclist · · Score: 1

    Funny, was just chatting with a friend a couple weeks ago about how Picasa was damn-fine photo management software. Too bad it was trashbinned.

  23. Wow, what a headline by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 1

    Who in Google's marketing department came up with that?

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    #DeleteChrome
    1. Re:Wow, what a headline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Who in Google's marketing department came up with that?

      Who knows, but they're really shaping my narratives.

    2. Re: Wow, what a headline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      None of your beeswax :P

  24. Only a stereotypical millennial . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    . . . would use the phrase 'jukebox of memories' (or a marketing department trying pathetically to appeal to them and their $$$), and sterotypical millennials are not relevant in the grand scheme. Enjoy it while it lasts, shorty, because the rest of us could give a shit.

  25. I HATE /. BULLIES like ZIP & c6gunner... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: I'm so sick & tired of /. BULLIES. You shitweasels have nothing better to do than HARASS, STALK & IMPERSONATE little ol' me. I've done absolutely NOTHING wrong & just try to make everyone's lives better w/ my work that stops ads & malware.

    * As soon as I post, I'm CENSORED to -1 w/ ABUSED downmodpoints by bullies like ZIP, who even admit to this. I caught c6gunner mocking then IMPERSONATING me when he forgot to log out. Zontar mailed me a postcard w/ THREATS on it, then LIES & STALKS me. All because you JEALOUS JOWIE "ne'er-do-wells" KNOW I'm World-Class & you're shit. It's why you hide behind FAKE names & UNIDENTIFIABLE ANONYMOUS.

    I'm even improving my already GREAT PHYSIQUE by getting calf implants while you weezils sit around all day on /. STALKING & HARASSING your BETTERS. I repeatedly dust the no-mind bullshit blatherings you BULLIES post to attack me. Like always I WIN & YOU LOSE.

    APK

    P.S.=> This BULLYING of me is SO UNFAIR & is probably a HATE CRIME because I'm gay. GROW UP... apk

  26. Google photos ad. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is blatant advertising of a mediocre product. I've used Google photos. It's about as good as a folder on your desktop, except you have no privacy.

  27. No thanks. Give us back supported Picasa ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Or would be nice if they open sourced Picasa .