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For exactly this reason I never trust online photo storage for anything other that disaster recovery. Google Photos still, after nearly two decades, won't tell
by verytrivial 5y ago
For exactly this reason I never trust online photo storage for anything other that disaster recovery. Google Photos still, after nearly two decades, won't tell you if they're storing an original copy or compressed facsimile of your photos. And after having the Android App randomly and surreptitiously turn on compression for uploads, there is simply no trust left.
So. SyncThing on my phone and laptop, and an a little herd of external drives. It makes me feel like a digital prepper or something. Sigh.
Actually. I think I have just self identified as a digital prepper and I like it. Time to download my Google content.
- dm3 5y agoI think this is completely OK. We treat our physical valuables with care. Why would we treat our digital valuables otherwise?
- smileybarry 5y ago> Google Photos still, after nearly two decades, won't tell you if they're storing an original copy or compressed facsimile of your photos. One recent anecdote: When I used my Pixel 2 with its free original quality backup, I used motion photos for a few things. 3 years later, now, on another phone (or even the web viewer) some of these motion photos are not loading. Some of them then load on the web but have video compression artifacts (i.e.: B-frame artifacts). I'm glad the original photos are intact from what I can tell, but this is extremely off-putting, given I was 100% in the Google ecosystem -- from hardware to account setup -- and still got burned somehow.