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Google tipped off authorities to illicit images in Canadian doctor's account, search warrants say (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

never too late to use another service to back up your photos! ente is a good alternative, i personally use proton drive (it’s kind of a crappy interface and not nearly as good as google, but it works). if you’re at all curious about self hosting, immich is basically a 1:1 google photos replacement.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    google is our offsite backup. i've got a decent onsite already. i haven't the energy to de-google right now but like, in six months maybe. my todo list is, uh,

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago*

    If you care about encryption I’d recommend Ente. They have guides for migrating from Google Photos.

    I was initially just doing local backups but I decided I wanted something offsite and Ente has been great.

    There’s also Immich which is very similar to Google Photos in terms of features, and NextCloud which is a whole cloud suite. These aren’t encrypted by default though so if you use a cloud provider they could realistically also scan through your photos.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    i feel you, i still have all my old photos from 2020 and before on google photos. the google takeout function didn’t even work for me, nearly half my photos were missing, so i have to manually download them i suppose. i get anxious still having so much stuff on there, but it’s so hard to migrate off especially after using it for a decade!

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    i've still got to ensure all my photos are off my last phone and on both backups (and that's important because my dad died when i had that phone) and then make sure all the current phones and photos are backed up, and then make sure the current compy's documents are backed up and i can try installing mint!

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