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But with takeout the problem is that all dates and metadata gets messed up. I had to learn this the hard way. There is some tools that somehow correct the dates. But it's not perfect and I wouldn't really want my photos to be locked up like that. What if google decides to discontinue Google Takeout? Or just give you lower quality pictures after some point? You really are not safe.
Since that experience I moved to onedrive temporarily because it's a bit safer solution for now until all of these new services get stable (immich, ente, etc). Onedrive let's you access you photos like normal Onedrive files so that's really good. I know microsoft will have my data now and sync is also not perfect. So it's definitely not perfect. But I had to move to something else before the better solutions emerge.
https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/why-did-nobody-do-this-d...
The idea basically is to block all ip's which weren't resolved by the dns server in past specific time period (for example in the last 3 minutes). So all static ip's would be blocked by default. When a domain get's resolved by the dns server, the ip address gets to the whitelist for a specific amount of time.
There is some issues. For example if somebody downloads something, the ip address might only get resolved once but the download happens by directly connecting to the ip address. But I think these issues are definitely solvable.
Would be interested to hear other peoples thoughts on this.
edit: of course this is for home network filtering purposes. If governments did this we are not in a good position.
After reading about RewindAI here and the last few hn articles about open source alternatives, I explored cross-platform desktop frameworks to make this accessible to more people and shared my thoughts on Reddit. Keen to hear your perspectives as well. Thanks for checking it out!