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>After stopping for years Honestly, thank you for making me feel marginally better about the disgustingly lazy, shortsighted, stupid etc. practice of using Goo

>After stopping for years Honestly, thank you for making me feel marginally better about the disgustingly lazy, shortsighted, stupid etc. practice of using Google Photos even though they are waiting with bated breath to report me to the cops because I took a picture of my son to send to his doctor[1], before banning my whole account. Migrating to Immich, 2026, hold me to it please lazy me! Oh how’s the search? (Too lazy to label anything so rely on Google Spyware for text & object recognition search when iOS fails. Take photos every day of my life so plenty to trawl through.) [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...

stavros 1y ago
Migrate today! I won't use any third-party photo service, that's too much data. The search is amazing, you search for "cat" and you get back all the cats.
- j_bum 1y ago
  The search is very impressive. It uses CLIP. So you can search “black cat on blue carpet in the morning” and expect to see a result (if it exists)
  - stavros 1y ago
    Well shit, you're right! https://imgz.org/iiAgNmEJ.jpg https://imgz.org/iiAgNmEJ.jpg I didn't know it was that good! Wow.
tecleandor 1y ago
OMG, I'm so sorry for that. That's terrible.
- Barbing 1y ago
  oof a hypothetical my bad! ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45458560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45458560 )
washadjeffmad 1y ago
I've stopped using YouTube and run a bi-yearly Google Takeout (and wipe). https://takeout.google.com/ https://takeout.google.com/
jadbox 1y ago
Did you ever get access to Gmail/fi again after the incident?? The article said the two cases, at time of writing, still had not gained access to their account again even after they were cleared.
- Barbing 1y ago
  Sorry! By "waiting with bated breath" I sarcastically meant they'd be eager to report me in the _hypothetical case_ I took a photo as reported! Glad we both feel for that poor dad. ...especially cause he's stuck with Yahoo (actually do remember that detail from the story, and that people give him a hard time for it)

stavros 1y ago

Migrate today! I won't use any third-party photo service, that's too much data. The search is amazing, you search for "cat" and you get back all the cats.

j_bum 1y ago
The search is very impressive. It uses CLIP. So you can search “black cat on blue carpet in the morning” and expect to see a result (if it exists)
- stavros 1y ago
  Well shit, you're right! https://imgz.org/iiAgNmEJ.jpg https://imgz.org/iiAgNmEJ.jpg I didn't know it was that good! Wow.

tecleandor 1y ago

OMG, I'm so sorry for that. That's terrible.

Barbing 1y ago
oof a hypothetical my bad! ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45458560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45458560 )

washadjeffmad 1y ago

I've stopped using YouTube and run a bi-yearly Google Takeout (and wipe). https://takeout.google.com/ https://takeout.google.com/

jadbox 1y ago

Did you ever get access to Gmail/fi again after the incident?? The article said the two cases, at time of writing, still had not gained access to their account again even after they were cleared.

Barbing 1y ago
Sorry! By "waiting with bated breath" I sarcastically meant they'd be eager to report me in the _hypothetical case_ I took a photo as reported! Glad we both feel for that poor dad. ...especially cause he's stuck with Yahoo (actually do remember that detail from the story, and that people give him a hard time for it)