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Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live (www.forbes.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

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Kinda creepy. I was about to migrate to Immich, fortunately I'm not in the US, so I don't get that update yet. It does seem like a lost battle, anyway :( Even if I migrate to a privacy-respecting FOSS solution, my friends, family, acquaintances and random people around me will not (well, some may). I will still be featured in their photos out of my control.

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[–] 26 points 6 months ago (7 children)

The problem is that people don't care. They know how much invasive Google's services are, but they still keep using them due to the "convenience factor".

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    Man, I setup Immich for my whole family, a RAID6 of enterprise drives with about 10TB total available storage, and 1TB/user. I've got symmetrical 1Gbs fiber, too. Does anyone use it? No. The last get together I told them if anyone wanted help setting it up, I wouldn't mind. And no takers really. I said it's easy enough anymore with a 1TB SSD being <$100 it'd last a very long time they could back up too that, far more than Google allows... Nope...

    It's insane to me that nobody wants to change, but when these companies change on everyone, they just let it happen.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago*

    It's also that the existing software like the photo apps or pre installed sync apps doesn't help either. Eg. In android it's all automatically synced to Google drive etc. You really need to turn it all off, either later or during the first mobile setup. Those big companies make it difficult on purpose to switch to alternatives, while by default enabling their own vendor lock in software. Same for iOS. Same for MacOS and same for Microsoft Windows.

    If we truly want to change the world, we need to fix the root cause. And make a better alternative to android and iOS..

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago*

    I'm so fucking pissed about people having my pictures everywhere. It's so frustrating that nobody cares. They've FA and now going to FO as soon as the governments destabilize enough for them to track down dissidents and punish political opponents. Everyone will be blackmailed and lick boots because Aunt Linda thought her texts to the neighbor about your secrets were private. In my country I hear they now want federal surveillance in cars starting in 2027. Not sure if it is true. If so, I'm done y'all.

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