Photo storage -Flickr vs Google photos vs ?
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@Carnival-Boy said in Photo storage -Flickr vs Google photos vs ?:
I use both and think Google is miles better. My only concern is giving Google even more insight into my personal life.
I've not used Google for photos in a really long time. What about it do you find better now? Flickr is about the same that it was all those years ago, it was good then and is the same now, so I'm pretty happy. But if Google has something special to offer, I'm interested. It didn't have anything compelling back when I looked long ago, but it was long ago.
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I've never really liked Flickr's interface. I don't find it at all intuitive. I find everything slow versus Google. I prefer Google's editing functionality. I find Flickr's phone syncing flaky but never had an issue with Google's.
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Flickr, a yahoo product. Versus Google photos?
Not much competition.
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I use Dropbox as my primary photo storage from all my connected devices (camera upload), this takes care of full resolution images storage. Along with that i have google photos as well, photo upload automatically from my mobile devices (unlimited storage, not full resolution, but thats ok as i have the originals in Dropbox). Plus all my computers have google photos app installed which takes the photos from my dropbox camera uploads.
Benefits?
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Original photos on Dropbox
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Awesome filtering option using google photos (surprised to see acurate results for even facial reaction like smile, cry, kids etc). No more manual tagging or renaming files/folders.
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Created another google account for wife, and just create shared albums from my google photos with wife where even she can add photos to library without spending a dime for her account!
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Bonus: Using Google Photoscan to scan all our physical old photos to the library as well!
Total amount spent: $99 /year for 1TB (Also includes other files that i save)
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I use Amazon Cloud Drive and Prime Photos for my video and picture storage. 60$ a year for unlimited storage. If you already have Amazon Prime you get unlimited photo and 5GB of video storage included with your subscription.
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@coliver how good is the search functionality and sync speed? From my experience i think dropbox is still the best in terms of sync speed + LAN sync to other devices on the same network if needed
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@Ambarishrh said in Photo storage -Flickr vs Google photos vs ?:
@coliver how good is the search functionality and sync speed? From my experience i think dropbox is still the best in terms of sync speed + LAN sync to other devices on the same network if needed
Sync speed depends on your connection. When I did my initial upload of 1TB of images and videos I was maxing out my 5Mbps connection. Took a few weeks. Since then we have the app on our mobile devices and as soon as you take a picture it uploads to the account. After every trip I upload pictures taken with our point-and-shoot and I don't really notice it.
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@coliver said in Photo storage -Flickr vs Google photos vs ?:
@Ambarishrh said in Photo storage -Flickr vs Google photos vs ?:
@coliver how good is the search functionality and sync speed? From my experience i think dropbox is still the best in terms of sync speed + LAN sync to other devices on the same network if needed
Sync speed depends on your connection. When I did my initial upload of 1TB of images and videos I was maxing out my 5Mbps connection. Took a few weeks. Since then we have the app on our mobile devices and as soon as you take a picture it uploads to the account. After every trip I upload pictures taken with our point-and-shoot and I don't really notice it.
Signed up for 3 months Amazon trial, copied a video file of 5.25 GB file and started syncing on both Amazon and Dropbox. (Not sure why Amazon drive shows it as 4.89 GB!)
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I think it boils down to speed vs storage & price
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I definitely recommend plenty of redundancy. That's why I use both Yahoo and Google. I'd never trust one provider with a lifetime of photos. I read recently about Google shutting down people's account because they didn't like the way they'd bought some Google Pixel phones (something about a shipping scam across US states?). The idea of them just deleting all your photos is pretty scary - especially when it relates to a completely different and unrelated product.
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@Ambarishrh said in Photo storage -Flickr vs Google photos vs ?:
I think it boils down to speed vs storage & price
Very well could be, but the upload rate maxed out my connection so it was good enough for what we need.
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@Carnival-Boy said in Photo storage -Flickr vs Google photos vs ?:
I definitely recommend plenty of redundancy. That's why I use both Yahoo and Google. I'd never trust one provider with a lifetime of photos. I read recently about Google shutting down people's account because they didn't like the way they'd bought some Google Pixel phones (something about a shipping scam across US states?). The idea of them just deleting all your photos is pretty scary - especially when it relates to a completely different and unrelated product.
That's one of the nice things about paying for Flickr, they can't legally delete your photos on a whim.
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@scottalanmiller said in Photo storage -Flickr vs Google photos vs ?:
@Carnival-Boy said in Photo storage -Flickr vs Google photos vs ?:
I definitely recommend plenty of redundancy. That's why I use both Yahoo and Google. I'd never trust one provider with a lifetime of photos. I read recently about Google shutting down people's account because they didn't like the way they'd bought some Google Pixel phones (something about a shipping scam across US states?). The idea of them just deleting all your photos is pretty scary - especially when it relates to a completely different and unrelated product.
That's one of the nice things about paying for Flickr, they can't legally delete your photos on a whim.
And you're saying that Google can legally delete your photos on a whim when you've paid them money?
In the case @Carnival-Boy mentions, the people did pay for a Google Pixel, and part of that payment included unlimited at native resolution the use of Google Photos cloud storage.
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@Dashrender said in Photo storage -Flickr vs Google photos vs ?:
@scottalanmiller said in Photo storage -Flickr vs Google photos vs ?:
@Carnival-Boy said in Photo storage -Flickr vs Google photos vs ?:
I definitely recommend plenty of redundancy. That's why I use both Yahoo and Google. I'd never trust one provider with a lifetime of photos. I read recently about Google shutting down people's account because they didn't like the way they'd bought some Google Pixel phones (something about a shipping scam across US states?). The idea of them just deleting all your photos is pretty scary - especially when it relates to a completely different and unrelated product.
That's one of the nice things about paying for Flickr, they can't legally delete your photos on a whim.
And you're saying that Google can legally delete your photos on a whim when you've paid them money?
Can you pay them money? Is there any paid service with them? There wasn't last I checked.
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@Dashrender said in Photo storage -Flickr vs Google photos vs ?:
In the case @Carnival-Boy mentions, the people did pay for a Google Pixel, and part of that payment included unlimited at native resolution the use of Google Photos cloud storage.
I'd have to see the wording of "includes". Was it REALLY paid for as a service? If so, they could not delete. I think there is likely something missed here or else there would have been lawsuits.
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You're saying these companies can't cancel your account if you've paid them? I'm not sure. I've heard too many stories about accounts getting cancelled. For example, Amazon cancelling accounts for returning to many faulty items and then you can't access your Kindle books or use your Amazon Firestick. Maybe they can't cancel during the subscription term, but if it's only monthly you could easily get caught out.
With regards to paying Google, yes, Google photos requires payment if you want to store photos at full resolution. I don't. It's done via Drive.
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@Carnival-Boy said in Photo storage -Flickr vs Google photos vs ?:
You're saying these companies can't cancel your account if you've paid them? I'm not sure. I've heard too many stories about accounts getting cancelled. For example, Amazon cancelling accounts for returning to many faulty items and then you can't access your Kindle books or use your Amazon Firestick. Maybe they can't cancel during the subscription term, but if it's only monthly you could easily get caught out.
With regards to paying Google, yes, Google photos requires payment if you want to store photos at full resolution. I don't. It's done via Drive.
Well the service that I pay Flickr for is a backup service. If they delete my account, that's bad faith and unquestionably illegal in the US. It's "intent to defraud".
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@scottalanmiller said in Photo storage -Flickr vs Google photos vs ?:
@Dashrender said in Photo storage -Flickr vs Google photos vs ?:
@scottalanmiller said in Photo storage -Flickr vs Google photos vs ?:
@Carnival-Boy said in Photo storage -Flickr vs Google photos vs ?:
I definitely recommend plenty of redundancy. That's why I use both Yahoo and Google. I'd never trust one provider with a lifetime of photos. I read recently about Google shutting down people's account because they didn't like the way they'd bought some Google Pixel phones (something about a shipping scam across US states?). The idea of them just deleting all your photos is pretty scary - especially when it relates to a completely different and unrelated product.
That's one of the nice things about paying for Flickr, they can't legally delete your photos on a whim.
And you're saying that Google can legally delete your photos on a whim when you've paid them money?
Can you pay them money? Is there any paid service with them? There wasn't last I checked.
Yes, google has storage fees based upon how much you want to store. Not that that should matter, you are buying unlimited photo storage as part of your phone purchase - though I suppose they could claim that since you got the phone illegally, then the contract is null and void.
But I have no sympathy for those that are skirting the law. What I don't know - did the end buyers know that they were skirting the law? I have a feeling they did. -
@Carnival-Boy said in Photo storage -Flickr vs Google photos vs ?:
You're saying these companies can't cancel your account if you've paid them? I'm not sure. I've heard too many stories about accounts getting cancelled. For example, Amazon cancelling accounts for returning to many faulty items and then you can't access your Kindle books or use your Amazon Firestick. Maybe they can't cancel during the subscription term, but if it's only monthly you could easily get caught out.
With regards to paying Google, yes, Google photos requires payment if you want to store photos at full resolution. I don't. It's done via Drive.
You still only get so much free space in Drive. After that you must pay.
