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Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

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Re: Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

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Post by eru »

federona wrote: post #59
gerash wrote: post #55

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It would be a nice exercise but relying on it doesn't make sense to me. We had to write a text editor in our first semester of our CS undergrad program. I'm not going to use my own text editor in favor of say MS word or Google doc.

Your data is secure on b2, it's simply an interface. Code is on github. DB should be dumped and saved to b2 daily. Not really unreliable.

A week of coding is a long time, and you have to keep it up to date. (It's basically a quarter of a month of salary. That's a lot of money.)

Depending on contracts with an employer, there might be legal hassles as well.

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Post by eru »

gruez wrote: post #63
federona wrote: post #46

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Remote storage, redundancy, and portability. At $5/mo/tb. you can still access any of it anytime you want, you just pay for what you actually download.

shucked hard drives go for around $15/TB on sale. Buy three for redundancy and it's $45/TB. The break-even point for that setup would be 9 months.

Well, plus a lot of hassle.

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Post by eru »

coolspot wrote: post #2

Google seems to be in some “cut all expenses” mode recently: + cancelled stadia game studio + cancelled free unlimited google photos + closed Chromium APIs for derived browsers + closed Google Music (replaced with YT Music) + froze hiring + cancelled new office leases

They also no longer hand out Christmas presents. But those had been on a downhill slope for a while.

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Post by perryizgr8 »

aceazzameen wrote: post #70

I expected shennigans to occur with Google Photos over time, which is why I've been using Dropbox to backup phone photos now. Dropbox immediately syncs to my hard drives at original quality. And while I'm at it, I still backup with Google Photos at a lower quality. Not as a failsafe, but just for that fast ML searching of subjects like, "dog" or whatever. And if I ever lose that search functionality, no big loss. I w…

I've been doing the exact same thing except with one drive. I don't trust Google.

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Post by junkrat002 »

jrockway wrote: post #13

I got burned by this. I take 4x5 film photos and stored my library in Google Photos as 80 megapixel TIFF scans. One day, they told me I was out of storage, and that all the files were converted to phone-quality jpegs. They look awful. I got into this situation because I had a few terabytes of free storage that I accumulated while working at Google; there was some deal like "fill out this survey and we'll give your pe…

>but they altered the deal

Pray they don't alter it further.

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Post by chihuahua »

torgian wrote: post #76

Not surprising. I’m wondering if it will someday come down to storing personal items on personal hard drives again, instead of relying on the cloud for anything other than temporary storage.

Certainly if you have pictures you care about and don't want to wake up one day to find that Google has locked your account due to unspecified reasons, you should store them on a personal hard drive. And use Google cloud stuff only as a convenient cache.

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Post by shortandsweet »

duquedeturing wrote: post #67
lathiat wrote: post #51

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iCloud Photo Library is similar but no compression hijinx - it's always original quality in the cloud and you can choose to store only "high quality" locally on your device to save device space (hilariously, the opposite of Google). You pay for the storage (but you can't get more than 2TB for love nor money).

Now you can, up to 4TB: “ With Apple One, you can choose a subscription plan that includes 50GB, 200GB, or 2TB of iCloud storage. If you need more iCloud storage, you can buy more for a total of up to 4TB. ” https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201318

Hmmm no android option. But there is a pc option?

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Post by mcguire »

plantain wrote: post #68
jrockway wrote: post #13

I got burned by this. I take 4x5 film photos and stored my library in Google Photos as 80 megapixel TIFF scans. One day, they told me I was out of storage, and that all the files were converted to phone-quality jpegs. They look awful. I got into this situation because I had a few terabytes of free storage that I accumulated while working at Google; there was some deal like "fill out this survey and we'll give your pe…

>I got into this situation because I had a few terabytes of free storage that I accumulated while working at Google; there was some deal like "fill out this survey and we'll give your personal account unlimited free storage forever"... but they altered the deal and that storage went away. That deal was always time limited, and then was periodically extended for years and years until one day it wasn't. It was clearly…

Just like all of Google's other products?

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Post by ascagnel_ »

shortandsweet wrote: post #78
duquedeturing wrote: post #67

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Now you can, up to 4TB: “ With Apple One, you can choose a subscription plan that includes 50GB, 200GB, or 2TB of iCloud storage. If you need more iCloud storage, you can buy more for a total of up to 4TB. ” https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201318

Hmmm no android option. But there is a pc option?

There's an iCloud Windows client.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204283

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