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.
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Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome.
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Chrome is one of the first things I disable on my Android devices, and I hate the idea of signing up for any accounts just to access local files.
But Canon welcomed me with a big surprise, and a fuck you, too!
It actually wanted the chrome app to be enabled and only opens the chrome app for the sign up/log in process.
So a user agent switch wouldn't have helped in this case.
Firefox doesn't support WebUSB and Web Bluetooth on any platform.
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?
It's not that it needs a different browser agent, but it looks for the Chrome app, and forces you to have it installed (or enabled, if you've disabled it like I do).
Canon has dropped the ball so hard imo. Most of my other video friends and contacts who use dslrs switched to Sony.
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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.
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.
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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
I don't want any of my business being shared with Google, including the fact that I use Canon products. It's just yet another data point for them to weaponize via targeted ads and data brokering.
And simply opening Chrome means that a data siphon to Google was just opened, so telemetry data would have been collected immediately.
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I thought they stopped making Cameras?
Anyways, learn to use a SD Card maybe. I would never install anything of theirs on any device, personally. I owned an old T5 once and it worked with their webcam software but they paywalled the full resolution, the bastards.
Good fucking printers, though. Better than HP. Not as good as an inktank for ink prices, tho.
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They've really gone downhill since the AE-1.
And another one...