Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome.

Forward it to Louis Rossman. He'll make an entire video about it and add it to the wiki tracking these scummy companies.

"Yes, I'd like to return this camera because it's an invasive piece of shit"

Yes indeed, I just wrote a rant about this in the Canon community on here.

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.

That's what I did for now, but given that I only ever used the damn thing as an overwrought remote shutter button when doing macrophotography (you'll never guess the subject), I just bought $6 aftermarket remote release and moved on with life.

For added fun and excitement, if you don't have internet connectivity the app won't work. So, like, if you're out in the wilds on a hike with your camera. Nobody ever does that, right?

All apps are crap. This one is extra crap, now. I've never used it for geotagging and certainly not for transferring images -- not more than once, anyway, because on my phone it takes a solid 15 seconds per image. It would be faster for me to not only take the card out, but crack it open and inspect it with a tunneling electron microscope and type the ones and zeroes into a terminal by hand. I just put the damn card in a reader instead. Always have done.

Canon is on my personal blacklist for decades. I bought a printer from them, not just a normal A4/legal, but a professional, wide one that uses rolls of paper, etc. I was unhappy with the state of the driver under Linux, so I called and asked for a programming documentation to write my own printer driver. Their opinion on Linux/open source was that "open source is theft of intellectual property".

Yup, sucks. What I do is just take out the card a plug it into a little USB dongle thing which I can plug into either my phone or laptop.

Also faster than the app too. The app uses WiFi or Bluetooth. Its also annoyingly finicky to connect tk the camera.

on my camera i can plug it directly into my phone and transfer it with a usbc cable

Dude. I needed to use this app the other day for the remote shutter function, and I was somewhere with no signal and no internet. Only to discover that the app had updated and now required me to create an account to use it. I was pissed.

magiclantern.

Jailbreak your shit. You own it don't you?

I've been running across sites that demand I use Chrome on PC too, a non-starter since Google "upgraded" Chrome to prevent adblock use. My solution has been to install User Agent Switcher for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/uaswitcher/. Works on both PC and phone.

Are you sure? Thats not acceptable for most professionals so i doubt there is no way around it. Whats the modelname of your camera? How are you trying to access the files?

In order to access my tax and benefit accounts on the Government of Canada website I can only use Chrome ... making sure to wipe all cookies, etc afterwards.

I freaking hate shite like this.

Fuji makes some really nice SLRs, and their glass is exceptional. Also, you don't need to install software if you don't want to.

How are you transferring these files? I understand it's less convenient but could you maybe take the sd card out and plug it into a laptop instead?

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. Massive dick move by forcing account creation tho.

I don't have much experience with cameras but isn't it usually sd cards that you can pull out and transfer using a sd reader? Does the camera have internal storage that needs an account and app?

I rolled back the app to an older version before this was required and blocked it from network or updating. The only feature I use is the gps data over bluetooth and remote shutter. Canon can go F*** themselves with this nonsense

Shit, no more Canon then.

Enshittification at its finest

Oh that’s too bad. Guess I’m not buying that shit.

Well, shit. I was planning on getting a Canon for my first camera because it's hard to beat them for astrophotography, but I'm less sure now.

Oof, that is new, the camera connect app used to work without an account before.

Looks like someone needs to write an app that doesn’t have these requirements.

Much like every telehealth experience I’ve had in the past 3 years.

Vendor software is always a pile of shame. Can't you just copypaste images?

Edit: oh, mobile.

Hey fellow canon man - https://lemm.ee/post/60130414

bye bye Canon. You were once the light of my photographic life - now you're dead to me for pulling this bullshit.

FYI if you're shooting tethered the live view functionality and performance of Capture One is infinitely better.

Canon still exists? People still use dedicated cameras? I found Canon hardware to be overrated, scanners to cameras to printers. All shit in one way or another. And their software, my god, the cruft.

Had the powder and fuse primed for an Oh Brother Where Art Thou joke. Picture my mild fury when I noticed this is about cameras, not printers.

Trebuchet > Canon

Not that it's worth the effort of jumping through hoops for a fucking file transfer of all things, but I wonder you can do it by spoofing your user agent?

There seems to be a common thread amongst all the Japanese camera manufacturers that their software is all "this must be done in exactly this (often convoluted) way".

I'm convinced that they put their hardware engineers in charge of writing the software.

In terms of the chrome only thing, you can probably use a UA switcher on firefox and it will probs let you in. It's probably just checking your user agent, nothing more.

Calling bullshit (not on you, op, but on Canon).

BS. Same new „features” on iOS. Just uninstalled the app. If I wasn’t so heavily invested in Canon glass, I’d be looking at switching.

Canon has dropped the ball so hard imo. Most of my other video friends and contacts who use dslrs switched to Sony.

Is there something about Chrome specifically that's no bueno nowadays? I haven't heard anything but to be fair I don't really keep myself in that loop too much now

Well canon seems like a product to avoid. This person shouldn't now know better for their future purchases l.

I’d just return and leave a bad review lol

For a moment there I thought they'd locked down the SD card or something. Don't people transfer to their computers anymore?

I figured out how to connect my Nikon to their app (finally) - works somehow, most of the time, but you can only transfer photos compressed to 2MB jpeg. Is there a reason for that? I think it's annoying to have to delete the duplicates later on

Can you not just transfer via usb drive connection?

Not to defend Canon but can you not just use USB or transfer via SD Card? Just asking because I just got an EOS RP.