This just goes to show that even though companies may claim your data is safe with them right now, this might not be the case in the future.
Companies are in the business of making money first and foremost. This is not bad. You should just keep in mind that if that model is under threat, anything you entrusted them with might be too.
It's a hard thing. Most data is related to an application. The reason I am still using Google contacts, is because of the lack of a good integration of nostr:npub18s4zkd0wjq5gkthz4paw2704ty4s354wcp2krvxy0sewz3g9z2cs73ydrt contacts in my phone dailer, openstreetmap navigation etc. Or even better a Nostr contacts (more details than the bio and lightning address). The same for a lot of other apps. I can't wait for the day all kind of apps are nostrified and I can just signin with my Phone, desktop OS and smart devices for all of those features. Would be really cool to have data encrypted well on WoT relays and mirrored Blossom servers. A lot of work to do before we are there.
I agree that sometimes the tradeoffs are quite big, but they are not impossible.
Sharing contacts is actually super bad. I am guilty of this as well btw so my hands are dirty too, but it's actually other people's data that you are giving away. It's already too late for this anyway, everybody is doing it and there are actually loads of other apps that fish for your contacts as well for some "benefit" you may then gain. Horrible practices.
It's not that there are no alternatives, but they make it explicitly hard to integrate in their ecosystem. Technically you can still revert to a notebook or text file on your phone. More hassle, i know and understand.
Indeed too much hassle for me. I already have too much hassle with nostr:nprofile1qqsrc23txhhfq2yt9m32s7h90864j2cg62hvq4tpkrz8cvhpg5z39vgpzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezuum5w43xy7fwv3jhvtcpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucnfw3kkzurnw3ezu6t09uq3kamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwd6kgmmrv9excmmn9e3k7mf02qnk6j calendar related to sharing calendars and having a location available to my navigation. Still I am using it, but not that happy with it. I think Google photos will be the next one I will replace by something else.
May i suggest https://immich.app
Thanks. I've seen it a couple of times already but have to take the time deeply. There are some dependencies such as watching photos as tv screensaver and home assistants, sharing, face recognition. And I would like to store them automatically externally too, so when a local hard drive fails for whatever reason I won't loose my photos.
Yw,
Dunno about the screensaver. All these other features are in there already. Been using it for the past year.
It has memories too and there's an api so screensaver options are definitely available.
