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What to do with photos?
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this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2026
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U can use so many better alternatives to backup your photos off site, google is training their ai on your photos. You can use proton drive for example. Or choose a provider for cold storage or something.
I didn't mean to imply that I recommend Google Photos (I was hoping the emoji would make that clear), only that OP may want to consider an off-site backup as part of their backup solution. Everyone should. Self-hosting Immich is great, easy, free, etc., but it also shifts the failure point of your potentially irreplaceable photos to single hard drive in your possession, subject to the whims of a house fire, earthquake, etc.
Proton Drive for photo storage is a horrible experience, though.
Cryptomator being used to upload is an option to consider if cloud service providers like Google, Microsoft, or Apple are used. Then those companies will just get gibberish files as opposed to training data.
This is how I do it. We use OneDrive for work and I use Cryptomator on my files within. Android app works well with it
It's been about 18 months since I last tried to use Proton for photo backup, so maybe things have gotten better. Proton Calendar certainly has. But at the time, it had no support for searching, tagging, or location metadata, didn't respect existing albums, picture previews were unusably slow (maybe because of encryption, in which case, fair I guess) it didn't let you select what folders you wanted to update (so instead of just backing up my camera photos, it would back up downloads, screenshots, memes, etc.). It lacked the ability to select all or groups of photos, even just straight uploading would be painfully slow and fail frequently.