[prepend]

If I authorize an app to scrape an entire album, that’s a good thing.

This isn’t more security, this is google attempting to squeeze more monetization.

[IncreasePosts]

Sure, but what if you want to let an app have a single picture of you for a profile pic, but the only permission you can grant is "can view all of my photos", and then the app uploads all of your photos to their server?

[prepend]

How is this relevant? Wouldn’t you just grant access to the single photo? Or just create an album with a single photo?

The existing functionality was sufficient. This new functionality does not improve security.

[delfinom]

Good thing the existing API let you restrict it to "can view specific album" already.

Now google is making it cancerous and awful and making it specific photos only. Probably to sell a yet to be announced photo frame lol.

[renewiltord]

No, users must be protected for their own sake. You cannot be allowed to trade off convenience for privacy. It’s too important. M

[diddid]

Never trust google for anything important, because they will mess with it to get money or cancel it if they can’t get the money, regardless of anything they’ve claimed in the past.