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Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021

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Re: Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021

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Post by avgDev »

jcims wrote: post #173
mholt wrote: post #46

Time to dust off my side project, Timeliner [1] which downloads your Google Photos (and other content from various services) and indexes them in a local SQLite DB. Then after backing them up locally, I won't feel bad about deleting them from the cloud later to free up space. I've been using Timeliner for a while but need to update it. New maintainers welcomed, if you're interested! (One major "oof" is that the Google…

I have one primary collection but I also have probably 30TB of old drives lying around with photos scattered all about. Is there something I can do to mount those drives, grab all image files and then dedupe/catalog them (at least by date)? Ideally this would work with videos as well.

I bought a Synology NAS mainly for images/videos/personal files and run hard drives in RAID setup. You could explore other NAS solutions like QNAP or open source.

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Post by amerkhalid »

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…

I use Apple Photos with iCloud. Lightroom with 1TB plan might work too.

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Post by tyrust »

rektide wrote: post #94
Hamuko wrote: post #5

Well, luckily Google One is quite cheap. You can get 100 GB for 20 euro per year to get started and even the 2 TB plan is cheaper than for example Dropbox and iCloud when paid annually.

Free, however, meant that photos could stay online potentially past the end of someone's life. Now the dead will have their memories & photos that they've shared vanish. This is a dark day.

From the blog post [0]:

> Any photos or videos you’ve uploaded in High quality before June 1, 2021 will not count toward your 15GB of free storage.

If this is a concern you personally have, take a look at this help page: https://support.google.com/accounts/troubleshooter/6357590?h...

Disclaimer: I work for Google, but not on any of this stuff.

[0] - https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-changes/

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Post by nikolay »

Is there another photo hosting service, which has such a great face recognition (including videos), and flexible search by time, location, people in photos, etc.? I made Google Photos my primary, because we accumulate thousands and thousands of photos, so, no other service I know offers such quality search. But maybe I'm wrong.

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Post by mvgoogler »

kingnothing wrote: post #112
thekyle wrote: post #108

Personally I like this new direction Google is going. I am someone who much prefers to pay a few bucks a month over having my data used for ad targeting. Ideally I'd like to see them make all Google platforms ad-free for Google One subscribers.

They're still an ad company at the end of the day. Now they're going to charge you and advertise to you. Win win for them.

Photos doesn't show ads or allow your photos to be used for ad targeting.

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Post by mholt »

scrollaway wrote: post #144
mholt wrote: post #46

Time to dust off my side project, Timeliner [1] which downloads your Google Photos (and other content from various services) and indexes them in a local SQLite DB. Then after backing them up locally, I won't feel bad about deleting them from the cloud later to free up space. I've been using Timeliner for a while but need to update it. New maintainers welcomed, if you're interested! (One major "oof" is that the Google…

Matt, did you see Promnesia? https://beepb00p.xyz/promnesia.html There are a lot of converging ideas out there, for "self-hosted NSA of yourself" type software which gather your own data from services you use and index it / make it more accessible to users. Would love to see something serious come out of it. I followed Timeliner early on and really like the idea, but yeah it's a bitch to get traction for this sort of…

Yep, I've also seen Perkeep and several other similar projects. They're all a bit different and I'm happy with something simple and bare-bones, it just has to be good at getting the data off.

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Post by Justsignedup »

vidarh wrote: post #119
chrismeller wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More like “tapping that lucrative subscription revenue” because they finally have enough people locked in

I remember the frantic meetings at Yahoo when Gmail killed the market for storage upgrades. They caused an immense amount of work (more so than affecting revenue and costs; the premium quotas at least in Europe didn't generate much revenue and the quotas were there more out of fear of excessive use). A lot of adoption of Google services was driven by not having to worry about quotas. Making quotas a concern again wil…

I tried using a google competitor because I didn't trust google. Even for money. They could not compete. How do you compete against essentially free.

This is why google needs anti-trust.

Re: Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021

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Post by mvgoogler »

singhkays wrote: post #168
thekyle wrote: post #108

Personally I like this new direction Google is going. I am someone who much prefers to pay a few bucks a month over having my data used for ad targeting. Ideally I'd like to see them make all Google platforms ad-free for Google One subscribers.

> few bucks a month over having my data used for ad targeting not seeing this promise anywhere with this announcement though

It's in the press release: https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-changes/

"And, as always, we uphold our commitment to not use information in Google Photos for advertising purposes"

https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/keeping-priva...

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