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

https://lemmy.ca/post/44834804

on my camera i can plug it directly into my phone and transfer it with a usbc cable
You’ll end up with better quality images this way compared to transferring them to Canon servers where they’ll likely be compressed or altered.

Not to mention likely cataloged by geotag and used for “targeted marketing” by Canon and “select partners”.

That shit is just creepy.

Probably used to train an AI model as well
This is actually the real reason behind the change