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Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live
(www.forbes.com)
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this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2026
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Even when they say it's optional, it's never actually optional. They are always enabling it in the background and just preventing you from seeing that.
But even if they actually did use an opt-in system properly, they would still only do that for like 6 months, and then in the next update you'd be forced to use it. And who can stop them? There is no alternative.
No alternative? Immich and Ente are definitely an alternative Google Photos. It ain't that hard to degoogle these days.
There are services and websites that literally won't let you change your email, so if you used gmail to sign up, you're stuck with that email.
Never had a website or service deny an email change in my 25 years of being on the internet. But you can move all the other stuff to a different email and keep the ones you can't change on your gmail. Still a better choice than giving all your data to google.
Immich definitely lets you change your email, and even if they didn't, it's open source and self-hostable, you could just do it yourself and submit a PR.
You can opt out with this trendy new cocktail that will be all the rage this summer!