+1 for Google Photos. So far at least Google has not messed up with the product and I have seen it getting better and smarter over the years in finding blurs, dupes, fixing light, showing pics to archive, searching by pic keywords, ability to easily share albums and pics etc. All in all a great product!
I don't want my kids pictures to be used for training a military drone AI or some other nightmarish computer vision application. I keep all my photos self hosted.
There are a lot options for doing this, I like librephotos: https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos
Not yet messed up the product.
I dont trust them to not hose it up in the future.
It's always going to be a never ending battle unless you self-host everything. Just gotta go to the best one and be willing to backup and switch services when it gets too bad.
Meh. How do I get my photos out? Paying customer here.