Published on: 2025-07-08 04:30:57
Nextcloud, a host-your-own cloud platform that wants to help you "regain control over your data," has had to tell its Android-using customers for months now that they cannot upload files from their phone to their own servers. Months of emails and explanations to Google's Play Store representatives have yielded no changes, Nextcloud wrote in a blog post. That blog post—and media coverage of it—seem to have moved the needle. In an update to the post, Nextcloud wrote that as of May 15, Google has
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 19:53:31
Nextcloud is a host-your-own cloud platform that wants to help you "Regain control over your data." It contains products that allow for video chat, file storage, collaborative editing, and other stuff that reads a lot like a DIY Google Workspace replacement. It's hard to offer that kind of full replacement, though, if your Android app can't upload anything other than media files. Since mid-2024, Nextcloud claims, Google has refused to reinstate the access it needs for uploading and syncing othe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-11 03:38:00
Dear users, We are aware that for some months, Nextcloud file uploads for Android users have not been working as expected: you cannot upload all data to your Nextcloud, only photos and videos. We have seen your complaints in various forums such as the Nextcloud help forum, on GitHub, Reddit , or other forums. As your experience with the Nextcloud Files app for Android has worsened, we wanted to share the background. Google has revoked a critical permission to sync all files. Despite multiple a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-11 20:00:57
Nextcloud is a host-your-own cloud platform that wants to help you "Regain control over your data." It contains products that allow for video chat, file storage, collaborative editing, and other stuff that reads a lot like a DIY Google Workspace replacement. It's hard to offer that kind of full replacement, though, if your Android app can't upload anything other than media files. Since mid-2024, Nextcloud claims, Google has refused to reinstate the access it needs for uploading and syncing othe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 15:02:02
Exclusive European software vendor Nextcloud has accused Google of deliberately crippling its Android Files application, which it says has more than 800,000 users. The problem lies with the "All files access" permission, where broad access to files on a device is required. While most applications can make do with Google's more privacy-friendly storage access tools, such as Storage Access Framework (SAF) or the MediaStore API, others require more permissions – hence the "All files access" privil
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-12 18:13:52
Some of us still run standalone office applications, but most people today use cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) programs for our work. However, do you really want to pay annual service fees to Google, Microsoft, or Zoho? Can you trust them with your information, especially since every company with an artificial intelligence (AI) program wants to dig through your data? If you're concerned about those issues, why not run your own cloud-based SaaS, where you call the shots? The good news i
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