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> If you have a Pixel 1-5, photos uploaded from that device won’t be impacted. Photos and videos uploaded in High quality from that device will continue to be exempt from this change, even after June 1, 2021. All good things come to an end, but at least they still honor the promise they made with the Pixel phones.
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Yeah, that's a good strategy I suppose even if you do need to cart around a HDD to update every so often. You just need to make sure your parents backup is updated periodically.
The carting around and updating is made simpler with a tool I have found and love, free file sync. One of the few tools I buy into (even though its free).
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Videos aren't free though and I feel that those 5 GB will start filling up pretty soon, which means you'll have to start paying anyway.
I'm not sure videos were unlimited on google either though. So I'm not sure you're losing a feature there.
I pay for Google Photos and you should too if you care about your photos. I've used Dropbox, Apple Photos and Google Photos. Google Photos is hands down the best photo application for individuals. Mostly because its face/object/place/whatever recognition is the best of its kind. Dropbox: they are ignoring the photos needs from users. They focus on "enterprise cloud storage" and "workplace sharing". Apple: I love the…
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You don't think some team at Google is using photo metadata for ads? There's plenty of value prop in pushing different ads to me if you know that I'm on vacation based on location metadata, or knowing that I buy new shoes and take pics of them every 2 months in order to push me shoe ads at that cadence. I'd be astonished if that isn't the case today or won't be tomorrow.
> You don't think some team at Google is using photo metadata for ads? Do you really think they are committing fraudulent inducement when they explicitly say that they aren't when selling the service? > There's plenty of value prop in pushing different ads to me if you know that I'm on vacation based on location metadata Marginally, probably not much when they already know that from your cellphone location data, your…
Their TOS is 8 miles long like every other SaaS company. I'm sure somewhere in their is a counter clause that says they can do whatever they want with any of your data across all products.
Does anyone know of a good open source, self-hosted alternative?
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Heads up on the term 'grandfathering' and the racial overtones of what this means: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/10/21/239081586...
Thanks for sharing!
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If I had a Pixel 1 that was covered, but now have a Pixel 5, do I get original size or the reduced?
It appears that it's locked to the device you're using, so I would guess you're limited to "high quality". That's a real problem for, say, people taking photospheres, which generally clock in at around 40MP, and will be reduced to 2MP at "high quality".
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Nextcloud's isn't bad.
I tried Nextcloud a long time ago. It was buggy. I really, really wanted to pay for it at the time, but it didn't quite work. Should I try it again? I also might be confused, but I thought they kept some key parts proprietary. I'm now looking, and that doesn't seem to be the case. Perhaps something changed (perhaps even my memory!). I'm a lot more happy to pay for 100% open-source than 90% open-source. Is it fully op…