Water might be wet
if they scan racey photos, it will be porn ads?
They are, by they also might, but they are.
This has the same energy as “I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too”
LMAO. No they won’t.
I mean, Apple already scans my photos for “memories.” This is definitely probable.
It isn’t possible unless there’s a major update to Android. I don’t use Google photos.
All they would need to do is update google play services to scan your photos without your consent and 99% of Android devices would be affected.
Well there’s your problem. On Android phones you can disable the Google Photos app (or remove it all together, or never have it to begin with) and replace it with a Free and Open Source Software version that doesn’t do any of that crap.
You can also install Firefox (or a secure fork eg IronFox) with ublock origin and block ads.
Notice how you forgot to mention play services, your entire device is now Googles as it was before and yet you still feel smug about it, womp womp
“might”
And that’s why we self host.
Remember to back up regularly!
In Kramer voice: Oh, I backup.
On a RAID.
Backed up nightly to Backblaze in US and OVH in Germany. Recovery exercise once every year.
Backed up every 6 months to offline storage, for worm protection.
It takes an asteroid killer before I’m at risk.
I hope.
FUTO is in the progress of offering built in backup in immich. Very neat idea.
Google won’t scan my private photos. Neither do I have Android (nor iOS) on my phone, nor do I use Gmail and certainly not Google Photos.
What do you use for your phone, out of curiosity?
One word: Immich
Who can afford hard drive space in this economy
Do it now while you can still buy a Pi and a hard drive for less than $500 each.
At this point ditch the PI and go straight to any used Mini-PC with 12th gen intel or 5000/7000 ryzen…
I kinda assumed it already did, so I stopped using Google photos, now it’s time to exit google drive as well. The only transition I think might be hard for me is Gmail and maybe Keep, but I’ll figure something out
“Might” == “Have been for some time, just that we’re now getting to the obvious point”
Ugh it’s going to be a pain to stop using Google, but it’s time. Long gone are the days of “don’t be evil”
If you’re interested in a self-hosted alternative, I can highly recommend immich. The UI is clean and fast (relative to Photoprism), has android and iOS apps, auto phone->server uploading, sharable albums, and more features. I don’t know anyone that has been disappointed after switching, and I see why
The biggest pain if you want to set it up is starting your home server if you don’t already have one. Otherwise I found setting up immich itself on a server pretty easy
Long time PhotoPrism user here, really curious what you find slow or unclean about it? Maybe I should switch.
I primarily found that when importing photos, it would take Photoprism a long time to generate thumbnails. It was long enough that I would give up on trying to sort through the photos after uploading and come back a few hours later
Alternatively with Immich, I dumped ~100 Halloween photos taken with my phone and DSLR onto the server. They were already previewable by the time the files were done uploading
I’ve already uninstalled Photoprism so I couldn’t tell you what my config was. Could have required more tuning; but I’m at a point in life where I’m leaning towards needing things to “just work”, than to have to tune things
Re: Unclean: IIRC, Photoprism gives you a lot of tools and options. More options and features = more stuff on your screen = a more cluttered UI. While I did like the tools, it also made it difficult to share with normies
The only problem with Immich is that it’s a fascism-supporting FUTO project. It’s excellent software, but don’t give them your money, because they’ll send it to fascists.
Do you have an alternative? critique without alternatives is not helpful.
They’ve already been posted by others. No point in duplication.
Don’t be lazy, enlightenment is more than half the battle, done for you.
