Moving away from Google services, 8 years in
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Would be interesting to get advice on how an actual user of the Google ecosystem can do this kind of move. There are a lot of applications to research, e.g. Photoprism for replacing Google Photos. A bit overwhelming to review the options and make feature/setup comparisons, considering how many products I use on a daily basis. But it would be nice indeed, to own the data. If the overhead is manageable.
Thanks for the feedback!
I realize I wasn't actually using Google Photos, so my recommendation of hard drives likely isn't realistic for most people. TIL about Photoprism, I'll look into it.
For Google Drive, an actual solution for a typical use case would be something like Nextcloud (self-hosted or not, doesn't matter). My own use case was only about sharing a single file between two machines, so Syncthing fit the bill perfectly.
Again, thanks for sharing your thoughts :)
I just purchased FileBrowser Pro for my iPad, but after adding my Backblaze B2 bucket i just get an authorization error. Recreated the keys, still not working…
The developer replied and provided a workaround the same day… so that’s great support!
It helped that I'd always had the hard drives while still on Google Photos.
* Google Authenticator => Aegis Authenticator
* Google Maps => Windy Maps / Maps.me
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.wind...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.organicmap...
And those that use F-droid
Fast
Light
Free
Allows you to backup all tokens in an encrypted backup (not iCloud)
Why should I replace Google Authenticator? Since many concerns that are valid, such as (1) you don't own the data, (2) you might be banned any day and (3) your data might be used for ads, doesn't exist in this case?
* Open source
* Encryption
* Biometric/password authentication
* Import/Export
* Backup/Sync
Let's say you were hiring for a security guard for a bank. You have 2 candidates.
One is a former bank robber, isn't particularly wealthy (so has an financial incentive to rob again) but totally claims he is trustworthy and will no longer rob banks.
The other has no bank-robbing history and happens to have other sources of income meaning they don't have a financial incentive to rob the bank.
Morals or laws around hiring former offenders aside, which one do you pick?
Sure, you can keep a close watch on the ex bank-robber to prevent future incidents just like you can decompile and reverse-engineer Google Authenticator's every update (and do so preemptively before installing said updates), or you can just go with an option that has no demonstrated history of being malicious and has little incentive to do so.
lol