submitted 6 months ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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That's my next project to get things from Google/Apple.

The options I've seen so far

Immich: great if you can self-host, but I prefer not to, so that's out for me
Nextcloud on a VPS (Hetzner or others): you need E2EE to prevent the providers from seeing your photos, but then all the apps like Memories etc don't work ( https://help.nextcloud.com/t/end-to-end-encryption-nextcloud/237705/3 )
Ente: has E2EE embedded, the face recognition happens on the clients. Can be self-hostable, so that gives more trust that other providers can launch their own European instances in the future.
https://zeitkapsl.eu/en/ : has E2EE, but no self hostable option, so you kind of have to trust them that they implement their design (which is actually kind of nice: https://zeitkapsl.eu/en/e2ee-architecture/ . They have a security audit on their roadmap (announced 8 days ago: https://zeitkapsl.featurebase.app/en/p/formal-security-audit )

Any option I am missing?

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[-] ElwinManglyeong@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

What about https://www.photoprism.app/ ? Don't know much about it, but perhaps worth a mention?

[-] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 6 months ago

If I understand correctly, photoprism is also only self hosted? If that's the case, I prefer not to (see my other comment: I'm just a bad sysadmin)

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