Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads (theverge.com)

actapp80 1 day ago

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• a3nz3g 1 day ago

  DSA?

• esperent 1 day ago

  From that link:

  Google services that are linked by default The following services are linked by default for users in the European Economic Area (excluding Germany) and can’t be unlinked:

  Accommodations

  Android Auto

  Android Automotive OS

  Android Studio

  Android TV

  AOSP for TV

  Assistant

  Authenticator

  Blogger

  Calculator

  Chrome OS

  Chrome Web Store

  Clock

  Contacts

  Digital Wellbeing

  Files By Google

  Find My Device

  Flights

  Gallery Go

  Gboard

  Gemini Apps

  Gemini Notebook

  Google Alerts

  Google Arts & Culture

  Google Automotive

  Services (GAS)

  Google Earth

  Google One

  Google Pay

  Google Photos

  Google Sign-In

  Google Store

  Google Trends

  Google TV

  Groups

  Messages

  Nest

  News

  Personal Safety

  Photomath

  PhotoScan

  Recorder

  Snapseed

  Translate

  Wallet

  Waze

  Wear OS

  Weather

  Workspace

• stein1946 1 day ago

  I was told that regulation does not work and that I should vote with my wallet.

  /s

  • throwaway_7274 1 day ago

    You have so much "freedom from" in a world with strong, effective, well-designed regulation. It's unreal. How amazing is it to be able to buy pretty much any food product and eat it without wondering (almost ever in your life!) if it's been tampered with. How amazing is it to have your bank deposits insured up to $200,000. How amazing is it to be able to fly safely anywhere in the world and know it'll be totally perfectly fine with 99.99999% probability. I love regulation.

  • ThunderSizzle 1 day ago

    Probably should still consider voting with your wallet though...

    Why trust Google of they aren't acting in your interest?

    • thrance 14 hours ago

      I've found good alternatives for pretty much everything: search, mail, drive... But I remain pretty addicted to youtube, and haven't found a good alternative to that. Also, my (French) employer uses gmail for mails, calendars and meetings. So I couldn't really escape Google if I wanted to...

jmathai 1 day ago

• mceachen 1 day ago

  Don't rely on Google Takeouts for byte-perfect backups of your Google Photos library.

  Depending on the device that uploaded the media and your country, they may have stripped GPS metadata from your media. I've also had captured-at times get changed randomly (!!) from your original media.

  If possible, pull your media directly off your smartphone to make sure there are no shenanigans going on.

  (These were painful discoveries made while trying to help support my PhotoStructure users)

  • jmathai 13 hours ago

    PhotoStructure looks great, by the way. I have known about it for some time and love to see great open source photo offerings.

    • mceachen 13 hours ago

      Just to clarify, I've open sourced a ton of PhotoStructure (exiftool-vendored, batch-cluster, fs-metadata, @photostructure/sqlite, sqlite-vec, and 10 more repos), but PhotoStructure's frontend and backend integrations are not open source. If PhotoStructure, Inc. ever closes, though, I will open source the repos powering the consumer product.

      I've written open source for several decades, and certainly enjoyed the spoils of open source, but I've also seen a ton of bad behavior. Keeping it closed source certainly is not a guarantee that I avoid intellectual property theft or license violations, but at least I'm not just one agent prompt away from someone rebranding and reselling what I've worked full-time on for more than a decade.

• kwanbix 1 day ago

  I tried Google Takeout but with 900GB of photos is almost impossible to download.

  • jmathai 1 day ago

    Sounds like a great reason to gtfo.

  • cyberclimb 20 hours ago

    They split it up into distinct zip or tgz files at configurable max size. e.g. giving 18 distinct 50GB tgz files.

    If you have enough disk space it should be a problem, you also get about a week to download the archives

  • ThunderSizzle 1 day ago

    You could do smaller increments and script it so your only doing 10GB at a time.

  • 0xR1CK 1 day ago

    rclone speeds things up a bit.

    • cyberclimb 20 hours ago

      Last I checked (6 month ago or so) rclone was only able to download Google photos that had been uploaded via API/rclone. Other google photos weren't accessible.

      Whereas Google drive does not have this problem.

      Has the situation changed?

    • mw67 1 day ago

      yeah I've done it recently, just use claude code to use rclone on a server and let it run automatically, its great and easy.

      • soraminazuki 1 day ago

        But by using Claude Code, you're essentially handing over your data from Google's bot to another data-hungry bot run by an equally untrustworthy entity.

        You don't need an anthropomorphized computer program running on trillion dollar companies' servers just to run `rclone copy`.

        • subscribed 22 hours ago

          You're not syncing photos to anthropic services, you're not even using Claude code to run rclone for you, and specifically you're not ingesting every synchronised photo or video into the context.

          You're not authorising CC to access your photos.

          Claude Code is used to prepare the rclone run.

          What do you mean that by using cc you're handing over your data (presumably synced photos) you're handing over your data"?

          • soraminazuki 21 hours ago

            The comment I was responding to only said "just use claude code." So every single word you wrote in your reply is a hallucination.

            If you genuinely believe that "just use claude code" means any of the things you wrote, you are definitely not careful enough to take the precautions necessary to contain commercial spyware. Claude Code would read your credentials and probe your files to "see if everything is set up correctly" and you won't think twice about it.

            And again, all this just to run `rclone copy`.

            • subscribed 18 hours ago

              LOL, speaking about the projection.

              OK, explain, what to the "just use Claude code" means in your opinion.

              From your words it's literally using the coding harness to access Google Photos and fopy/backup these photos/videos, still within the Claude code.

              Is this what you'd do? Because that's the only way I'd understand someone to go on such rant.

              • soraminazuki 9 hours ago

                > OK, explain, what to the "just use Claude code" means in your opinion.

                I see you didn't get the message. It's not about opinions. Don't add a bunch of extra meanings to suit your argument.

                The original comment was:

                > just use claude code to use rclone on a server and let it run automatically, its great and easy

                First, it says "use claude code to use rclone." It's very simple English, yet it directly contradicts your claim that "you're not even using Claude code to run rclone for you."

                > Because that's the only way I'd understand someone to go on such rant.

                Yeah, no wonder given the above.

                Going back to the original comment, it says it's easy. Easier than not using Claude Code, which is typing `rclone copy <source> .`. Every justification that you pulled out of thin air is more complicated than that.

                > Is this what you'd do?

                Again, you're not reading. Read my original comment. And the reply to your comment. I wouldn't use Claude Code in this situation. I'd just type `rclone copy <source> .`.

                • subscribed 8 hours ago

                  Right, I see, so when there's an opportunity for a rant you get one specific, narrow meaning, discarding anything else, even if more relevant and sensible, and then you go off.

                  Maybe try Claude Code one day, then you'll recognise what that phrase was actually about.

                  All the best! You must need it with such attitude to life.

                  • soraminazuki 7 hours ago

                    You literally made a bunch of things up and directly contradicted the statement you so vehemently defended. That's not "sensible," and pointing that out is very different from word lawyering. No amount of "trying Claude Code" will compensate for that.

                    Just calm down. You seem to be personally offended at the mere suggestion that Claude Code isn't a good fit for everything, or that it's not even more trustworthy than Google. That's just a fact, not a "rant." If you feel the impulse to throw a tantrum because of that, I genuinely urge you to revisit your relationship with your cloud subscription because it's definitely not healthy for you, or the people around you.

• yreg 1 day ago

  Immich is fantastic.

• gschizas 1 day ago

  I haven't found setting up Immich to be super easy. But I have a special setup at home (Windows Server with minikube). I've been wanting to try it for some time though.

  Maybe I should rope some NAS for just the Immich setup.

  • fletchowns 1 day ago

    Windows Server with minikube seems like an unusual combination. I am guessing you would have a better experience self-hosting stuff with Linux (Debian) & Docker. Running Immich on that is fairly painless. Once you're familiar with that, then decide if something like k8s is right for you. Unless you're already happy with your minikube setup for other apps, and there was something specific you ran into with Immich?

  • mceachen 1 day ago

    I wrote the open source library that Immich (and PhotoStructure and several thousand other projects) use for metadata reads and writes.

    PhotoStructure runs everywhere (laptops, desktops, macOS, Windows and Linux), libraries are portable across machines and OSes, there's a generous, usable free tier, and setup takes about three minutes. If you have any questions hop into our discord, we're a friendly bunch.

• the_real_cher 1 day ago

  I use Immmich plus Tailscale.

  Chefs kiss

  • Terr_ 1 day ago

    That's on my someday-list. Immich through its rootless-docker configuration impressed me, but I've still gotta get around to figuring how I can provide access to family members. (I mean, I could buy some suitable hardware that isn't my desktop, but prices these days, amirite?)

    • AlphaJack 1 day ago

      You don't really need a new homelab, a used mini pc will do just fine. For me Immich idles at 0.1% on consumer CPU consuming less than 3GB of RAM: - server: 1.40GB - postgresql: 600MB - machine learning: 125MB - valkey: 25MB This is for around 200k photos and videos. Mounting the thumbnails folder on an SSD should also help with load speed

      • brendoelfrendo 1 day ago

        I run it on a Raspberry Pi 4B. External SSD for storage, runs like a champ.

    • Gigachad 1 day ago

      Immich is not heavy. I bought an old mini pc from a second hand government office supplies website and it runs all my self hosted apps perfect with tons of room to spare.

      I think the main thing is storage speed matters which is why a mini pc with an ssd runs circles around a raspberry pi running off a microsd card.

    • cyberax 1 day ago

      I hosted Immich on an 8-year-old Intel NUC. It worked faster than Google Photos locally.

  • jmathai 1 day ago

    Same. It’s been set and forget for me.

• kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 1 day ago

  I tried Immich, but it doesn't play well with multiple users and external storage.

  I've had limited success with Memories on Nextcloud.

• brendoelfrendo 1 day ago

  This is what I did, but I found that it didn't preserve metadata when I tried to reupload my photos to Immich... everything showed up as though the picture was taken the day I uploaded it.