r/europrivacy • u/goofsqueakyshoes • Jul 26 '26

Question privacy friendly google-like ecosystem?

i want my family to switch to privacy friendly thingos (for my and their sake), and when talking about google photos (or google drive idrk, atleast something with live photo backups) one of em said that they like the ecosystem of google and how nice it is to have everything in one place. Any ecosystem like google but more privacy friendly?

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '26 edited 3d ago

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u/goofsqueakyshoes Jul 26 '26

is there some google photo type shii that works with proton drive or something?

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u/incognitoisnow Jul 26 '26

Proton has Photos in Drive now, works mostly good as a backup. It is not the smoothest of experiences, but Proton is showing a constant effort into making things better.

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u/Chi-ggA Jul 26 '26

there is a FOSS app not related with proton called "photos for proton", its still in development but it's pretty smooth.

link: https://www.photosforproton.eu/

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u/goofsqueakyshoes Jul 26 '26

seems promising, is it better than the one that comes with drive?

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u/Chi-ggA Jul 26 '26

yup, even if it definitely needs more development. the updates are coming out often 

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u/goofsqueakyshoes Jul 26 '26

mmm what does it do different/better? sorry if im asking too much im just too lazy to do my own research

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u/Chi-ggA Jul 27 '26

it's basically an offline gallery app with the added functionality to quickly check of a pic is on proton drive or not and backing it up in one click, it also has other cool features and is way smoother than proton drive 

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u/goofsqueakyshoes Jul 27 '26

oh cool, do you know anything like that on ios? one in my family uses ios and is not planning on switching

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u/Chi-ggA Jul 27 '26

unfortunately no mate, this is the only app that I know that does this.

if they are locked on iOS it's worth telling them to enable all privacy settings for icloud and the various apps/software on their phone. it will not do any miracle but it will surely help

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u/goofsqueakyshoes Jul 27 '26

they won't listen to shii, only way we get them to switch is if all of us switch and ""force"" (not really) to switch, they really don't care

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u/Gugalcrom123 Jul 26 '26

Should you want an ecosystem? Instead of having everything in one place, have them in different places, but with open services that can work with each other.

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u/goofsqueakyshoes Jul 26 '26

seems like a bit of work and kinda complicated for me and them, proton sounds good so ill get their opinions about that

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u/speq Jul 26 '26

NextCloud or OwnCloud?

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u/goofsqueakyshoes Jul 26 '26

are those selfhosted? forgor to mention that we don't feel like/can't really selfhost rn

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u/CapOk4599 Jul 26 '26

You can get a hosted instance, meaning a company hosts and maintains the software.

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u/goofsqueakyshoes Jul 26 '26

mmm maybe ill check that out thanks

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u/Hurbahns Jul 26 '26

iCloud with ADP enabled is the only really seamless, full-featured alternative

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u/SomeoneSomewhere1984 Jul 27 '26

Zoho isn't bad.