2y ago

Google wants to use your photos and searches to build an AI storyteller

www.androidpolice.com

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My hate for Google grows by the day.
- I removed all google photos last year, signed up to Proton for mail, drive, calendar l, password manager and vpn.
  
  Now finalize it by:
  Requesting data exports of all they have on you
  Deleting all data you can on your account
  Deleting your actual Google account
  Did that a few years ago, no regrets :)
  
  Proton Drive is pretty different from Google Photos, no?
- They did. Its called "using google drive".
Can I opt out of this?
- yeah, don’t use google search, or google photos, etc
Adobe already did this to their CC users. Just opted everyone in to scanning of files and creations. There's gotta be consumer prptection laws against this.
Maybe this is a better question for degoogle@lemmy.ml, but:
What's a good way to get off Google Photos and Drive on my phone? It looks like Proton seems like the right fit, but compared to Google One for $20/year, Proton for $120 seems like a bit much. I guess you're paying to not be the product? Although, shoot, my VPN auto-renewed for $100 a year, so I guess I'm already paying $120...
- Pcloud offers lifetime accounts. Price is reasonable if you plan to use it for 10+ years. Its basically a bet that they will still be around in 10 years.
- If your willing to deal with self hosting, immich is a great alternative. Its facial recognition and search is practically on par with google photos.
  The only downside is it doesnt' have photo editing, and its under active developmeant (it gets weekly updates and you occasionally need to modify docker config though they do give a warning in ui).
  https://github.com/immich-app/immich
- You could look into ente.io I use it and the price is quite good ($50/yr for 100GB). It's e2ee and approved by privacyguides.org. They also have a free tier if you want to try it out before buying. Their app supports auto upload of photos and videos and they are multi platform (mobile/computer). Worth looking into
- I use mega, it is reasonably priced amd fairly reliable.
My search history is going to be the thing that makes Ai kill us all.
I don't need Google to build a Randy Random to fuck with my life thank you very much.
Fuck off Google 😂
To those saying "don't use Google photos": can google access/use my photos on my phone even of they are stored locally without backup or sync turned on?
- Turn off all related functions for photos in the Google photos app and delete any backed up pictures. Finally, disable/uninstall the Google photos app from your phone.

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