I’ve read on reddit that Google still provides unlimited photos backup if you own Pixel 5a and lower. On rooted Android you can fake that and get free backup storage, but who wants to give pictures to Google?! I was thinking if it’s possible or done by someone to create an environment on Docker by faking device info to access that free storage and backup rclone crypted files as images (by .jpeg fake extension or something)?
- wolfshadowheart ( @wolfshadowheart@kbin.social ) 28•1 year ago
I know it’s not the point, but I do think it would be easier to set up a photo server than to hack around Google.
- Lem453 ( @Lem453@lemmy.ca ) English12•1 year ago
Look into self hosting
Setup seafile for normal dropbox like functionality and immich for photogallerly.
In the end , after alk rhe effort to trick Google, all your shit aill still be on google.
MiniPCs are quite cheap now on Alibaba or Amazon etc. Wait for a sale on a large HD abd you’re good to go.
- wolfshadowheart ( @wolfshadowheart@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
100% @gargari
Even something simple like syncthing is very easy
- MaggiWuerze ( @MaggiWuerze@feddit.de ) English3•11 months ago
Immich is a great service and the app is basically Google photos
- Jvrava9 ( @jvrava9@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•11 months ago
I use Immich. Highly recommend.
- Flax ( @Flax_vert@feddit.uk ) English2•1 year ago
Thakns for hte gerat tipS!?
- dingleberry ( @dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de ) English16•1 year ago
That’s a recipe for data wipeout.
- randombullet ( @randombullet@feddit.de ) English7•1 year ago
I just buy a pixel 1 for 50 bucks. Then I use that to upload my current photos. Works flawlessly
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
The hard part of the problem is not spoofing the pixel, but preserving your privacy.
Your solution solves the easier problem, but it doesn’t preserve your privacy.
- ChiefSinner ( @ChiefSinner@lemm.ee ) English6•1 year ago
The word you’re looking for is steganography
- adr1an ( @anzo@programming.dev ) English4•11 months ago
Mm no, that is encoding a message in the image, but the image remains the same and normal. Only the msg within is hidden cryptographycally…
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English5•1 year ago
Recently I’ve read a comment here on Lemmy about someone who keeps an old pixel at home on a charger, and runs Syncthing on it to sync pictures to the phone so they will get automatically uploaded.
If you were to go that way, you could obfuscate your images before copying to the syncthing shared folder. If you were to encrypt it, be sure to only encrypt the content of the images, to keep any headers and such so that google still sees it as an image. You may try with encrypting the whole file, you’ll have to try it out if that works.Other things that may be interesting:
- several years ago (2-3?) I’ve heard of a fork of the Simple Gallery app (the orange gallery app on fdroid) that if I remember correctly encrypted your photos and uploaded them that way to google photos. In google photos they were “viewable”, but they were just noise
- you mentioned Docker, so I suspect you’re not afraid of selfhosting. If you have the storage, you may like Immich. It’s basically a google photos clone. App on f-droid.
- u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) ( @user224@lemmy.sdf.org ) English2•1 year ago
I am not sure that can be done. For some devices, the free backups only apply to “Storage saver” quality, which means decreasing resolution and quality, which obviously couldn’t be done here.
Secondly, there is some file size limit. I think 50MB/image, but you could split the files, if it worked in the first place. - TheMadnessKing ( @TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id ) English1•1 year ago
Yup. They spoof you as Pixel OG and you get Unlimited Backup in OG resolution. I have been using it on my main acc for past 6 months or so.
- ErwinLottemann ( @ErwinLottemann@feddit.de ) English1•11 months ago
i don’t have unlimited photo storage for any of my two pixel 3 anymore. is this regional?