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Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud (nextcloud.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

The more tech-savvy of you are certainly able to use the alternative app store, such as F-Droid. But for our user base of roughly one million users on the app store, this will hardly be an option.

They have the merit to link to F-droid, but damn they are not selling it well...
I don't even know if they get any remuneration from Google anyway?
By the way fuck Google

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It seems that Google just gave them back the permission, 2 days after they publicly complained about it and after 6 months of ignoring it. What scumbags.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Great, thanks, otherwise would not have clicked:

Hacker News commenters were really skeptical the new call/feature was insufficient. Anyone know whether these APIs would’ve been OK after all?

Storage Access Framework (SAF) or MediaStore API

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I had no idea this was going on. Is it because I'm running Lineage?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

When I switched to iOS, the biggest pain point for me was Apples stranglehold on background processes meant file syncing didn’t work very well. Now it looks like Android has completely killed it?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Tl;dr: Google being anticompetitive by hampering third-party cloud sync via permissions (while themselves are not affected).

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 weeks ago

Unhappy with the recently uploaded file feature load function occasion app…? Would you like… BETTER recently uploaded file feature load function occasion app…?!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I use FreeFileSync and it syncs whatever files I point at it, not just videos and music. I installed it from the Play store.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah this is Google cockblocking

[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So, all the family phones that are using this feature for handset backups. They're just gonna stop backing up?

Thanks, Google. Thanks for protecting me from free software that scans files on my own phone and transmits it across my own network to my own server. Such a privacy nightmare. /s

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

Guessing they want you to use Google One, eh.

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