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		lupire on March 4, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to ... That assumes Google provides API and authorizes the access, or else you're stuck scraping complex web apps with a Chrome extension. Custom 3rd party software is usually banned from a consumer cloud API for security reasons.

safog on March 5, 2021 [–]

I'd say it's pretty common with cloud providers actually. Bring in data? (Spotify playlists, Photos, Contacts etc. etc.) come on in, we have great APIs. Want to take your data out? File a GDPR request and get it in some opaque format.

No incentive for Google to explicitly refuse photos from Apple for example.

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