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Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live (www.forbes.com)
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Google confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation. That means Gemini seeing who you know and what you do. You likely have tens or hundreds of thousands of photos. They’re all exposed if you update.

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[–] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Alright, I already transfered the pics to my Immich a month ago anyway, time to delete my shit outright...

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah. Because Google would never keep the images anyway.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, but at least it'll all be outdated and nothing new is added. And hey, maybe in the future we could get laws that force them to delete anything older than a certain date. Would leaving them there be any better?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    How did you transfer them? Was it an annoying process?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Like the other comment said, I did a Google takeout of my photos, then used immich-go to transfer them. Was pretty painless, got it done in a few hours, probs less if I was less dummy.

    Here's the guide I followed.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Thank you! I didn't realize you could just do a Takeout. I started the process last night and hopefully will be able to transfer them soon. It was completed relatively quickly, so I wonder if it will really have everything...

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    My takeout had everything, even random shit I should've deleted forever ago lol. I'd just check for the most important pics (weddings, vacations, etc.) that you would actually be devestated to lose. You can always wait a month or so before deleting to verify your media transferred fine.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I went ahead and deleted everything. Ended up being about ~60 GB, since I only ever used standard compressed storage. It was weird going back through all those photos, but at least I can save them locally now.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    My problem is that I can't download the whole takeout before it expires. Or some fail and they only allow so many retries to download.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Really weird, I've never had a takeout download limit or issue; does it fail on both .tgz and .zip versions? Maybe try just outright downloading a few batches of pics at a time and then uploading them to Immich.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I'll have to give it another try and report back. I think it is like 2TB total so I didn't have enough time to get it on my 100 Mbps. And then some of them failing and having to restart was not helping.

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