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Why not just pay for google photos?

by dkasper 5y ago

happytoexplain 5y ago
They've clearly indicated a desire to try another platform. Why does it matter what the motivation is?
- kyle_morris_ 5y ago
  OP mentioned that google is ending the free version, it makes sense to ask them why they don’t pay. If the reason is because they want a free tier forever, that impacts the recommendation. If the reason is because they think google could shut you out, that may need a completely different recommendation.
joshmn 5y ago
Well, for one, if Google's ML decides to nuke your account, you lose your photos unless you have a blog, a lot of upvotes, and luck.
- marticode 5y ago
  This is gonna be a risk with most cloud services. No matter what, you want to have a backup anyway.
crossroadsguy 5y ago
Because they are known for bait and switch; and even worse bait and shutdown? One bad click, or their AI screwing up might lock you out of all your photos and entire Google a/c? Among numerous other reasons. So while at it move away from one more Google service.
- Gustomaximus 5y ago
  Is the bait an switch comment fair? Google have offered free photos for years and obviously the storage requirements must be growing huge. A business needs to be able to change. Also haven't they said on both the big changes anything in the past will be held as legacy under free and future uploads will go to storage? I think you have to accept business needs to adapt models sometimes and Google Photos is more this than bait and switch. Fair call on the lockout. This is a real issue for Google.
  - rrrhys 5y ago
    They starved out any other provider who could offer photo storage with their free storage. Now they discover they need to charge for it.
risyachka 5y ago
Is there any convenient way to back up Google Photos to Backblaze or S3?
- jeffbee 5y ago
  Sure, just get a google takeout of your photos data, and whatever else you want backed up, and stick it in S3.
- pnutjam 5y ago
  There are afew projects on github that let you configure an API key for google access and pull your photos, without using takeout. https://github.com/dtylman/gitmoo-goog https://github.com/dtylman/gitmoo-goog https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync I run one on my wife's account with a cron job to grab new photos daily.
- emmelaich 5y ago
  https://rclone.org/googlephotos/ https://rclone.org/googlephotos/

Why not just pay for google photos?

happytoexplain 5y ago

They've clearly indicated a desire to try another platform. Why does it matter what the motivation is?

kyle_morris_ 5y ago
OP mentioned that google is ending the free version, it makes sense to ask them why they don’t pay. If the reason is because they want a free tier forever, that impacts the recommendation. If the reason is because they think google could shut you out, that may need a completely different recommendation.

joshmn 5y ago

Well, for one, if Google's ML decides to nuke your account, you lose your photos unless you have a blog, a lot of upvotes, and luck.

marticode 5y ago
This is gonna be a risk with most cloud services. No matter what, you want to have a backup anyway.

crossroadsguy 5y ago

Because they are known for bait and switch; and even worse bait and shutdown? One bad click, or their AI screwing up might lock you out of all your photos and entire Google a/c? Among numerous other reasons. So while at it move away from one more Google service.

Gustomaximus 5y ago
Is the bait an switch comment fair? Google have offered free photos for years and obviously the storage requirements must be growing huge. A business needs to be able to change. Also haven't they said on both the big changes anything in the past will be held as legacy under free and future uploads will go to storage? I think you have to accept business needs to adapt models sometimes and Google Photos is more this than bait and switch. Fair call on the lockout. This is a real issue for Google.
- rrrhys 5y ago
  They starved out any other provider who could offer photo storage with their free storage. Now they discover they need to charge for it.

risyachka 5y ago

Is there any convenient way to back up Google Photos to Backblaze or S3?

jeffbee 5y ago
Sure, just get a google takeout of your photos data, and whatever else you want backed up, and stick it in S3.
pnutjam 5y ago
There are afew projects on github that let you configure an API key for google access and pull your photos, without using takeout. https://github.com/dtylman/gitmoo-goog https://github.com/dtylman/gitmoo-goog https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync I run one on my wife's account with a cron job to grab new photos daily.
emmelaich 5y ago
https://rclone.org/googlephotos/ https://rclone.org/googlephotos/