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Comment on recommendations for selfhosted photo backup solution: folders vs albums?

Google Photos is a non-starter for me as a backup solution because they scan the actual content of them. No thanks. I know it’s convenient to search for, say, “all photos with my nephew little Richie in them,” but it’s not worth giving them more information about me than they already do.

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umbraroze@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Well, Google Photos shouldn't be considered a "backup" solution to begin with. Never mind that both Google and Apple scan the content in their respective services, but there's just no guarantee that they don't modify the data on cloud. "Oooh guys, we just invented a revolutionary new photo compression algorithm! Also hosting data is kinda expensive! So pay up if you want your originals." ...and there's occasional reports that these services just straight up corrupted some old files while no one was looking at them. Good going.

I just treat my Android phone like any other camera I own and use. Copy the files from phone to PC and from there to my NAS, and I use ACDSee's DAM functionality.

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- elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  ACDSee’s DAM functionality?
  
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joshuaacasey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
to be fair, all cloud services scan. It’s unfortunately necessary to detect CSAM to stop people from spreading it.

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- elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I really doubt this. If I lose the private key of this one service I use, my information is lost and unrecoverable - unless they put a backdoor in it.
  
  But if it is true, I’d be okay with this - provided that it is only use to detect abuse images and nothing else.
  
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