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- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 8 hours ago:
I don’t want any of my business being shared with Google, including the fact that I use Canon products. It’s just yet another data point for them to weaponize via targeted ads and data brokering.
And simply opening Chrome means that a data siphon to Google was just opened, so telemetry data would have been collected immediately.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 14 hours ago:
Firefox doesn’t support WebUSB, Web Bluetooth and several other integrations, so applications that need to connect to other devices need some kind of Chrome application.
If those features in the browser were needed, I could be a little less infuriated (they didn’t have to break previously working features, though).
However, Chrome was needed only to sign up and log in. Once that was done, I was able to disable chrome, and the app continued to work after restarting it.
Why they couldn’t implement a log in directly in the app, or use the device webview api, is beyond me.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 14 hours ago:
It actually wanted the chrome app to be enabled and only opens the chrome app for the sign up/log in process.
So a user agent switch wouldn’t have helped in this case.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 23 hours ago:
For data transfer only, yes, you can eject the SD card and copy your files.
But the app is used for other features, too. So you’re inconvenienced no matter what feature you use.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 23 hours ago:
I’ve used this method before, but it’s extra work.
I have an old point and shoot Sony that has GPS built-in. Newer models removed this and need the app to do the same thing. It’s like they went backwards on purpose.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 23 hours ago:
You just need the app. Either the older version (no account needed) or the new app (with an account).
But this also depends on the camera. I believe new ones can geotag live via Bluetooth (with the app). This is how my Panasonic camera does it.
But you can also set the app to keep a log of your location, so as you take photos, you can have the app tag them before transfer.
Check your camera’s manual to see how it works.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 1 day ago:
Some other users pointed out that you can stay on an older version before the signup requirement and it will continue to work fine even without an internet connection. That’s what I’m going to do.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 1 day ago:
It wants to connect to Facebook to log in
What a fucking cancer of integration.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 1 day ago:
I’ve had some sites simply not work right with Firefox, so I’ll use an alternative, usually just another flavour of Firefox, like Librewolf or Waterfox, and they tend to work just fine. It’s probably something to do with some of the locked down settings that I use on my primary browser, but it’s nothing compared to forced Google Chrome or gasp Internet Explorer. 😵
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 1 day ago:
😀😀😀 Looks like I missed the memo on Lemmy 🤭🤭
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 1 day ago:
The app was used for live view and also geotagging, in addition to file transfer. So this requirement affects several features.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 1 day ago:
The app was used for live view and also geotagging, in addition to file transfer. So this requirement affects several features.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 1 day ago:
Yes, another user already confirmed that the old version still works. I’ve done the same with the old GoPro app.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 1 day ago:
Magic Lantern is awesome!
Unfortunately, it’s for higher-end cameras, not my old point-and-shoot cameras. And it doesn’t magically give your device GPS for geotagging images :(
The app was fine. The enshittification of the app is not.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 1 day ago:
Is that through the CRA website? I’ve been able to access it on Firefox (through Linux) without being hassled.
But yeah, websites that force you to use Chrome would get on my nerves. I’d be sandboxing that entire browsing session, too. LOL
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 1 day ago:
I think it’s a bit hilarious that touching the camera is considered such a hassle now.
If you are being paid for your work, or you are under time constraints, there’s no way anyone would choose to take dozens of steps over a few.
I still love my older cameras, including one of the first DSLRs (Canon Digital Rebel). No apps. Every feature sold to you is right there in the camera, and those feature still work 20 years later.
It’s the enshittification of technology that’s the real problem. Most people would love the conveniences offered by advanced features, but not when there’s a catch.
And this extends to well beyond “regular cameras”. GoPro has completely ruined their hardware by locking basic features (like image stabilization) behind their app and/or subscription!
When I learned photography we had to finish the reel and spend a day in a darkroom before we could see the final product.
That’s when photography existed as a skilled art, and a more enjoyable hobby. I miss those times.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 1 day ago:
Yes, another user mentioned that the older versions still work and don’t require an internet connection, either 🤩
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 1 day ago:
Unless the app was working without internet access before.
It was.
The mistake is buying a camera that requires an app that isnt using an open protocol and expecting Canon not to make use of their software lock in thumb screws.
To ge fair, these cameras were purchased before the Golden Age of Enshittification.
As hardware features like built-in GPS were offloaded to apps, choices became slim.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 1 day ago:
Yes, they announced it last month, so the forced implementation happened very quickly. Asshole move by Canon.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 2 days ago:
Interestingly enough, there is an option to sign in to an account in the Sony app, but it is not a requirement to actually use the app, connect to the camera, etc.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 2 days ago:
Depends on your workflow.
As an example, if I’m in a studio and have a camera set up a certain way, it’s highly inconvenient to have to turn it off, pull the card out (which can mean removing it from the tripod if the card slot is on the bottom of the camera), plug it into a phone or laptop, copy the image, load the image for review, eject the card, reinsert the card, set the camera up again…
I mean, holy shit.
Why do that when you can tap the gallery through the app (already connected because you’ve got live view going), click on the photo, open it for review, keep shooting.
Of course, if you’ve shot a big day and have to offload 100gb of photos and video, an external card reader is the only way to go.
But for studio, live sessions, or quick shots, app transfer is so much easier. Some cameras have NFC, so you just tap your phone and start the transfer.
None of this has ever been a problem. It’s the requirement to have a connected account that makes it a problem.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 2 days ago:
You can do firmware updates with the SD Card, that’s the way it’s been done for decades.
Yes, but I’m not checking Canon’s website for every camera I own, when the app would just tell you.
That’s one thing that I shouldn’t have to chase Canon for.
I’m not going to pretend what geotagging and canon live view™ is but it sounds a lot like image metadata?
Geotagging puts location data in the photo. This is something I add to every image, because I use location for searching.
Live view is cool. You can set up the camera, and view/control it through the app.
This has many applications, and should never need an account to access, since the app should be communicating directly with the camera.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 2 days ago:
All I can day is that it would NOT work unless I also turned off my system wide adblocker (AdGuard).
For sure they are doing some shady shit.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 2 days ago:
Anyways, learn to use a SD Card maybe.
Completely irrelevant to the reason why I use the app, though.
I geotag photos, and that can only be done through the app.
I use live view, and that can only be done through the app.
Firmware updates. App.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 2 days ago:
Ahhh, sweet! 👍👍👍
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 2 days ago:
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.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 2 days ago:
Another use 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.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 2 days ago:
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.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 2 days ago:
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.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 2 days ago:
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.