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I honestly can't see the outrage here. Sure, they've closed their free tier, but they keep up the promise for Pixel owners and do not count images previously uploaded. That's really more than one can ask for in something they get for free .
If you have to start paying for photo storage, you may as well move them somewhere with better privacy.
I don't think they thought this through actually. If I have to pay, I'll pay for Apple iCloud instead, since it has better integration with my devices.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1150/
Currently I am hosting my photos on my nextcloud instance. But the support from the iOS app for photos is really bad and there seems to be no good webdav photo viewer on iOS.
So what about Piwigo [1] then? They allow self-hosting (does it run well on a raspi?) and have a pretty reasonably priced commercial solution (you have to go to the "individual" tab).
What else is there?
[1] piwigo.org [2] https://piwigo.com/pricing
First of attracting customers with the low or zero price is kind of standard way of attracting customers. I've never heard people complaining that some shampoo free sample is no longer free or that some discounted item is no longer discounted.
Second, another mistake people make is personification of companies. Company is not a human being, it cannot be honest, nice, make promises, etc. Company is a business entity, it just have contract with the users (officially signed or some TOS, like Google has that people agree with). Companies typically reserves the right to change terms of such contracts and it just happened.
Some companies might have good PR and make PR driven promises - if someone believes that, it is only that person problem.
If someone really thinks that companies support gay community because they "like" gay people, they are wrong. They support gay people only in countries where gay people are accepted and such PR move will bring them popularity (putting six colors rainbow as a company logo background costs companies $0, and they get good, cheap PR in return).
If companies really wanted to support gay people they would do all those "gay pride" stuff in countries where gays are sent to jail, but, as one can easily check, they carefully omit those places.
For anyone looking for other options: I've been very pleased with Microsoft's Onedrive offering; I pay $70/year for access to all the Office apps plus 1TB of storage and their family plan is $100/year and supports up to 6 people, with 1TB of storage per account.
If you have to start paying for photo storage, you may as well move them somewhere with better privacy.
I'm giving Amazon Photos a try, since they offer unlimited high quality storage with Prime. I will appreciate if someone shares their opinion about this service.
If you have to start paying for photo storage, you may as well move them somewhere with better privacy.
I'm giving Amazon Photos a try, since they offer unlimited high quality storage with Prime. I will appreciate if someone shares their opinion about this service.
I encourage a self-hosted solution with backups. There are many, some super easy for non-tech folk to use (synology for example)
Can we talk about alternatives? I am not a Google Photos user but I struggle to find a good privacy-aware or self-hosting solution. Currently I am hosting my photos on my nextcloud instance. But the support from the iOS app for photos is really bad and there seems to be no good webdav photo viewer on iOS. So what about Piwigo [1] then? They allow self-hosting (does it run well on a raspi?) and have a pretty reasonabl…
I still use Google Photos for convenience sake, but having a safe copy owned by myself on harddrives I own by myself is still worthwhile.
And setup was very easy - couple of clicks on web UI to enable the package and installing the mobile app.