This has been driving me mad for a few months ever since they started doing it. If I click backup, it's going to immediately overflow my google drive and charge me money. After enabling it, there's apparently no good way to clear photos from your drive without also deleting them from your phone, leaving you trapped in paying their fee or having to do annoying work arounds to avoid losing your photos.
It keeps popping up, ignoring "don't show this again", and they even redesigned it in the latest iteration so I'm sure it's not an accident. There's no longer even an option of "No" to exit the popup, you have to uncheck an option and then the exit button changes from "Backup" to "Don't Backup".
The first few dozen times were annoying, now it feels outright like an attempted scam to get me to click something I've told them over and over that I don't want to sign up for. If it were from any other company doing it I suspect that company would get an immediate bad reputation as attempted scammers.
I don't know if I'm going overboard, but I've just had to avoid signing up yet again, and am now wondering, is this the kind of thing which a department such as the ACCC could come down on them for, since it seems blatantly scammy and anti-consumer? Similar to when the Australian gov came down on Steam for not offering refunds and forced them to follow Australian consumer law.
Use without account