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It offers free unlimited photo auto-uploads with the original quality. Same for the videos for a very small price.
The app itself is like Google Photos and Google Drive combined, but with fewer features.
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Because the people willing to pay Google for their service don't mind the use of their pictures to better their services elsewhere. Google didn't get to be where it was without us , and the fight for privacy isn't worth it for some (most) people. Alternatives usually involve self hosting, trusting a privacy focused service , or not doing it at all. It's tiring. I respect the effort , but In a lot of ways it feels lik…
The fight for privacy is absolutely worth it. Those people have no idea about what they are getting into, they don't know anything. That is not something to base upon.
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It is not, however for some of us, there was an implicit “I let you datamine my images, you host them” relationship. Having to pay google tips the scales, so why not spend your $2 on a more privacy oriented service?
Because the people willing to pay Google for their service don't mind the use of their pictures to better their services elsewhere. Google didn't get to be where it was without us , and the fight for privacy isn't worth it for some (most) people. Alternatives usually involve self hosting, trusting a privacy focused service , or not doing it at all. It's tiring. I respect the effort , but In a lot of ways it feels lik…
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Down in the reddit comments it says it is not self-hosted because of limited "engineering bandwidth".
It looks like they only open sourced the clients, not the backend. Also the phrase "ente has an open architecture and source code that has been peer reviewed" that can be found on their website follows a dark pattern: hey, look we are open but not really.
For backing up photos, I've used two solutions: 1. PhotoSync[0] - it can your photos and videos to a local NAS. It has a ton of options for how to connect to a local NAS, plus it will connect to a variety of cloud services. It is very configurable. This used to be my primary way to transfer photos to my NAS, but I've since started using iCloud which does everything I need. 2. iCloud - Turn it on, sign up for the appr…
- Rename photos when syncing (timestamp based file names)
- Ignore screenshots, WhatsApp and other stuff
- Sync photos or videos only, or both.
- Convert HEIC to JPG etc.
Not affiliated, just a happy user for many years now.
- Send the pictures off the mobile device
- Browse the pictures
To send the pictures off the mobile device, I couldn't be happier than with Syncthing - it just works.
For browsing, I just use a file manager at the moment... I guess I like to keep it simple.
Personally I am using synology. I've got a disk setup that tolerates loss of two disks, and I'm doing nightly backups to the cloud.
We have an app on our phones for syncing pictures and video as they are taken. With no loss of quality.