if they scan racey photos, it will be porn ads?
They are, by they also might, but they are.
LMAO. No they won’t.
I mean, Apple already scans my photos for “memories.” This is definitely probable.
“might”
“Might” == “Have been for some time, just that we’re now getting to the obvious point”
And that’s why we self host.
Remember to back up regularly!
Water is wet.
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?
corporate dystopian move #7368945 aside, I have to wonder what the ROI on this would actually be
I think they don’t care. At this point, it seems they’re injecting ads like AI, basically hand-in-hand.
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.
Reading that article, I’m confused. It seems more like Immich (among other projects) received donations from FUTO? It doesn’t say anywhere that they support FUTO. FUTO supports Immich, along with many other open source projects.
Sure it’s not ideal to receive “bad money” tired to problematic politics like that. But also you can’t exactly stop someone from donating to you, other than sending the money back.
“Powered by FUTO”, front and center.
Damn, does that mean my home image server is evil?
Also, use Google takeout and the helper to keep meta and exif data intact, it will take hours and hours to run but it does a perfect job!
I feel immich-go might be a better choice: https://github.com/simulot/immich-go
Hadn’t heard of immich, I already run a plex server so shouldn’t be too bad to set up. That just leaves the big problem of switching all my existing accounts off gmail.
2nd this. Have it on a NAS box and the biggest task was just download and re uploading to Immich. Once on I find the UI pleasant and the face tagging is a nice touch.
Yo for years I had that stupid fucking Google warning about running out of space and got so sick and tired of it, now I get kinda giddy when I see “150gb/6tb used”
Ente worked for me. More pricey, yes. But you do not pay with your data… Also e2e encrypted, good family plans and sharing works good.
And one of their backup locations is an underground bunker
I love Ente, you can have 5 people spread across so it works out cheaper too. So in reality it’s like £2/person/month for ~200GB or £1 each for 40GB each.
I love supporting their cause though.
There are other alternatives, I recently saw a really good one but I don’t remember it. Let me look for it and I’ll send it to you as soon as I find it, we use it at work
One word: Immich
Who can afford hard drive space in this economy
photoprism is another option.
Do it now while you can still buy a Pi and a hard drive for less than $500 each.
Moved the whole family to immich, deleted all our photos on Google. Not missed Google photos at all
I would have to be crazy enough to use google photos for them to scan mine.
Always assume Google will scan whatever you store or access through them for advertisement targeting.
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
Self hosting email is horrid. Well self hosting email is not that hard now with Stalwart and other servers in a box exist. But getting your email accepted by any remote server require a fair amount of work.
The best alternative I have found to Gmail is Fastmail. They now offer EU hosting. Proton would have been an option too but they’re losing the plot.
Fastmail is genuinely the best web client I’ve come across. I have to use Gmail for work so I know it well and compared to Fastmail it’s basically Slowmail.
They aren’t already?
