So Google is now preventing people from removing location data from photos taken with Pixel phones.
Remember when Google’s corporate motto was “don’t be evil?”
Obviously, accurate location data on photos is more useful to a data mining operation like Google.
From Google: “Important: You can only update or remove estimated locations. If the location of a photo or video was automatically added by your camera, you can’t edit or remove the location.”
It’s enshitification in action.
Source: https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6153599?hl=en&sjid=8103501961576262529-AP
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Turning off location data in the camera app does still work.
Google Photos has never, to my knowledge, had the feature to remove the EXIF location from a photo from within the app/website.
@KelsonV I agree, never seen option to remove it. Admit never look into the exif on phone. Desktop much better for that.