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?

  • soratoyuki@piefed.zipEnglish
    2·
    9 hours ago

    Realistically, are you sure you want to ditch iCloud? I know this is a privacy and not a data hoarding community, but even though I self-host Immich, Google Photos (🤮) is still the off-site part of my 3-2-1 backup solution.

    • dieTasse@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      8 hours ago

      U can use so many better alternatives to backup your photos off site, google is training their ai on your photos. You can use proton drive for example. Or choose a provider for cold storage or something.

      • soratoyuki@piefed.zipEnglish
        2·
        7 hours ago

        I didn’t mean to imply that I recommend Google Photos (I was hoping the emoji would make that clear), only that OP may want to consider an off-site backup as part of their backup solution. Everyone should. Self-hosting Immich is great, easy, free, etc., but it also shifts the failure point of your potentially irreplaceable photos to single hard drive in your possession, subject to the whims of a house fire, earthquake, etc.

        Proton Drive for photo storage is a horrible experience, though.

        • steelplatedmech@piefed.caEnglish
          2·
          7 hours ago

          Cryptomator being used to upload is an option to consider if cloud service providers like Google, Microsoft, or Apple are used. Then those companies will just get gibberish files as opposed to training data.

        • RandomHugs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 hours ago

          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.zipEnglish
            1·
            5 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.