Just wanted to share photos here of 3d prints, now got people ‘joining’ albums that aren’t supposed to allow collaboration. Any way to actually have realistic boundaries and control over one’s own experience with google products or is it always a bit exposed to ‘whatever’?
Please dont ‘join’ my albums, they are literally albums of different images related to different topics, mostly designing, for my organization not whatever the hell google thinks of.
Waist of time, effing google will take 20-40 minutes from you randomly and repeatedly, with stupid bullshit, for the rest of your life. shit this is my sunday morning worrying about how random people can join a closed album on Google photos.
@Cliff_Bramlett the point was that setting was off, yet someone joined an album. it was set to no collaboration. checking this account a bunch of my albums have been reset to allow collaboration, I disallow this on all the photo organization albums for design projects so this is now tedious management on a sunday, click each and go through settings for each. rediculous.
@AlohaMilton , no collaboration does not equal not shared. You need to check sharing settings too. If it’s shared, people can join to view, download, and comment if those options are turned on.
@Cliff_Bramlett thanks, though that does not solve how half my albums settings changed to allow others to add photos, it does explain others joining.
Wish I could just share the photos and allow comments without the weird ‘joining’ thing. they aren’t ‘joining’ anything, they just looked at it and commented. it’s like saying people that walk into a gallery or read a newspaper have ‘joined it’. The word implies much more connection than I want to have, or have forced on ether party, just to look at a picture of a 3d print 
thanks again for the clarification on the ways ‘joining’ works with Google photos.
@Google_Photos , heads up. Aloha probably isn’t the first with this issue.