Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021

Post by TheArcane » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 6:19 PM UTC

warrentr wrote: post #154

Has anyone found a good family friendly alternative? In particular I would really like to: - Pay for the service (sustainable/trustworthy business model) - Be able to very tightly control access to albums as I really don't want kid photos ending up on facebook or similar due to crazy aunt kathy (in google photos anyone with access can add anyone else and until recently there was no way to remove people) - Ability to…

Post by sib » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 6:43 PM UTC

google234123 wrote: post #397

sib wrote: post #338

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These days, 15GB of photos is pretty close to nothing. If I go on a trip for a week to take pictures, I can easily shoot 50-100GB of images. (Using my full-frame DSLR, shooting in raw, average image size is over 50MB, meaning < 20 images per GB).

You should use compression to not use so much space.

Post by three_seagrass » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 7:03 PM UTC

jwr wrote: post #583

three_seagrass wrote: post #257

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>especially given what has been done to Gmail — your mail is being fed to machines and used to build an advertising profile for you. Google has not mined emails in GMail for ad targeting for years now: https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...

Ok, I stand corrected. Your mail WAS fed to machines and used to build an advertising profile for you. I am constantly amazed and how people trust and defend corporations like Google, given what the incentives are. Why do you think Google provides services like GMail or Google Photos? Look at their revenue streams: it's an ad-tech company.

Post by dredmorbius » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 8:06 PM UTC

andromeduck wrote: post #619

dredmorbius wrote: post #545

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Loss-leading to dissuade, discourage, weaken, or preempt market-based rivals is precisely dumping. https://traderiskguaranty.com/trgpeak/history-anti-dumping-c... Or more properly, predatory pricing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing

Read your own links please and FYI Google Drive/Storage was far from the first to offer free storage, not by a long shot. Dropbox and Microsoft were offering of free storage years before Google even launched Drive. Free hosting in the photo sharing space predates Photos/Picasa by literally decades and even in their specific form they were never without major competitors from the likes of FB/MS/Flickr/Photobucket/IG e…

Post by dragonwriter » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 10:30 PM UTC

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #628

joshuamorton wrote: post #494

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Context? This sounds nefarious, but for all we know you're talking about the people in the To line.

According to Google, it's “apps” – but this isn't Android apps; it's something that lets them directly fetch your emails from Google. I think it might be associated with OAuth, but despite their incredibly clear privacy policy I'm still not sure who exactly it is. Don't worry; I'm fairly sure it doesn't happen unless you click through a pop-up.