It is the extension of Google Drive.Īpple Photos has the same design principle as Google Photos. I will be more than happy to share the details.Īs I have mentioned earlier, Google Photos is another form of a cloud drive, where you only store your personal photos and videos. If you want to set up your own personal cloud drive using NAS, please let me know in the comments. But this is not meant for an ordinary person like you and me. NAS drives are the best option for having your own personal cloud drive at home. We use them at different times for different purposes. Now we have cloud drives.Īll these drives, mentioned earlier, are nothing but storage medium. We have heard about Hard Drives, Hard Disks, Flash Drives, USBs, Thumb drives, Pen drives, and Network Access Storage (NAS) Drives. You will save yourself from Apple, Google, or anyone else’s prying eyes to build a more advanced virtual profile of yours.
Anyone who provides the privacy-focused cloud drive solution will work just fine.īecause these privacy-focused cloud drive solutions DO NOT give special treatment to your photos & videos (not for now at least), you might lack some features and convenience, but as you know it will be worth it. So, when you are looking for a solution to replace Google Photos, you need to look at cloud drive solutions, because no photo-only solutions are available today. Well, the point is that your photos and videos are nothing but the files stored on a cloud drive, but given the special treatment using Photos apps. They wanted to lure us to share & our photos and videos with them, and they would provide the best visual appearance, collection, sorting, and organizing capabilities which are built using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). What both the companies have done is that they created a dedicated app called “Photos” because photos and videos could be given a different treatment or special care from the end user’s perspective, that is us. So, these are basically files stored on the cloud drive like Google Drive or iCloud Drive. So, when Google or Apple stores this information on their servers in the cloud, they are just storing files, Maybe in a dedicated folder meant for storing images and videos only. But, in the end, they are just another type of file and nothing more than that. Your personal photos and videos are nothing but files or specific types. These are the only two products available in the market today, which are solely focused on personal photos and videos. The explanation commonly applies to Google Photos as well as Apple Photos. It might not make sense in the beginning, but it will, eventually. Today we will talk about the next most complex task of moving away from Google Photos for Good, even if you are using an Android Phone.īefore we get into moving your photos away from Google, let us understand a few things first. I have already written about how you can get rid of Gmail. I’m committed and I will write an article one day to maximize your privacy protection on an Android Phone.īreaking up with Google products is not an easy task. I understand that not everyone, especially outside of the US, can afford to buy an iPhone. My humble request will be to avoid using Android Phone if you can. There is no doubt that Google products (pick and choose any) have the best user experience in the market. Avoiding Google and any of its products is also next to impossible if you are a user of an Android phone. Hotmail (now known as Microsoft Outlook) was dominating the email market. They very well knew how to manipulate us to leave everything else but join Gmail. The vast majority of marketing strategies are psychological tricks to manipulate human behavior.īefore introducing Gmail, Google was already the most popular search engine. It still does gather a lot (you will see this soon in this process).ĭo you remember when Gmail was first introduced, it was only invitation-based? That was definitely a marketing strategy. It does not matter if we decide to share our data with Google or not. Google is also the culprit for collecting the most information from our own data. It requires conscious effort to change the (wrong) habits we have built over time. Google is the biggest culprit for spoiling our habits.
It requires significant effort to change our behavior. If you want to move away from Google Photos, then you will agree more. Some of us are not so much bothered. Online privacy is subjective and has a different meaning for different people. In today’s connected world, controlling the privacy of our own data is not an easy task. Some of us are aware of the darkest side of data collection. We all (almost all) are concerned about the privacy of our online data.
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