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What to do with photos? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 17 hours ago by JettuhGlowie@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I already escaped everything big tech related except for my iPhone, but i will get myself a GrapheneOS pixel at some point. My biggest problem right now is my photos being stored on icloud. What can i do to prevent that?

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[–] RandomHugs@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Proton Drive for photo storage is a horrible experience, though. As someone who has been relying on the free tier Proton accounts for cloud based photo storage for the past year, currently sitting at roughly ~2k files currently that I am very dedicated to keep - How is it a horrible experience?

[–] soratoyuki@piefed.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

It's been about 18 months since I last tried to use Proton for photo backup, so maybe things have gotten better. Proton Calendar certainly has. But at the time, it had no support for searching, tagging, or location metadata, didn't respect existing albums, picture previews were unusably slow (maybe because of encryption, in which case, fair I guess) it didn't let you select what folders you wanted to update (so instead of just backing up my camera photos, it would back up downloads, screenshots, memes, etc.). It lacked the ability to select all or groups of photos, even just straight uploading would be painfully slow and fail frequently.