• circuscritic
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    989 months ago

    This is actually hilarious, in a very dark tragic comedy sort of way.

    The feature scans and categorizes important documents e.g. passports, IDs, etc., and it’s a feature of Google’s official Files app.

    Instead of dropping support and phasing it out, they’re going to kill it and DELETE all of those critical documents for users.

    JFC. Awesome.

    • Carighan Maconar
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      439 months ago

      Note that this is only about the copy made into the important tab. I do still agree it’s a stupid way if doing it, but they’re not deleting the original that was imported, just the import-copy.

      • @narrowide96lochkreis
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        289 months ago

        Could it happen that you already deleted the original file because you thought, well I have it in the important tab, but now will lose that copy when Google removes that tab and be left empty handed? Not sure how this tab works

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      139 months ago

      Google: hey, let us scan all of your most important documents. We’ll mark them as important for you.

      You: um… Okay. I guess that could be useful. I just hope you don’t record all of that information.

      Google: okay, we recorded all of your most important documents, so now we’re deleting them. Ta ta!