[Hidden-tech] * * * Retrieving a photo that I accidentally?? deleted from my phone? * * *

[Aaron E-J]

> I suspect that Apple cloud or Dropbox would be cheaper than S3
There are pretty cheap S3 services, https://wasabi.com/ for example.  
The issue is that S3 strips metadata if it is used as basic storage, 
meaning you loose all the dates and titles and things like that.  
Otherwise I would be using S3.

Aaron E-J
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On 2023-11-11 3:59 PM, Aaron E-J wrote:
> An issue with many of these services is they mine data to extract 
> people and location information and then use it for advertising. They 
> all say that it is "anonymized" before it is released, but if it is 
> then used to target individuals for advertising on a personal basis, 
> how anonymized can it be?
>
> If you are fine with some selling of your data and you have Amazon 
> Prime, I'm pretty sure they still have unlimited photo uploading.
>
> I use https://pcloud.com , which claims to encrypt all of its data, 
> although there is an additional cost to have client side encryption, 
> which I'm not sure what the difference between normal encryption and 
> client side because it is transferred using TLS/SSL, but 🤷‍♂️.  It is 
> the cheapest out there that I have found, which is the main reason I 
> use it.
> Aaron E-J
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> On 2023-11-11 2:54 PM, Rich at tnr via Hidden-discuss wrote:
>>
>> personally I run PhotoSync and
>> then have a local cloud in a pair of Drobos (yeah, whole nether story 
>> there)
>>
>> I suspect that Apple cloud or Dropbox would be cheaper than S3
>> Google photo is 15 GB free - 100GB $2
>> Apple is 5 GB free - 50GB $.99/mon 200GB $2.99/mon
>> Dropbox - 2GB free - $10/mon 2TB
>>
>> SOOO many choices - can't even find a real free S3 (lots of variants 
>> that are not simple files)
>>
>> Takes some tech skill to even make sense of it all
>>
>> R.
>>
>> On 11/11/2023 2:31 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
>>> At Sat, 11 Nov 2023 13:22:35 -0500rich at tnrglobal.com  wrote:
>>>
>>>> yes but - generally deleting an image on the phone deletes it from the cloud
>>> True.
>>>
>>>> I've yet to find a reliable way to delete from the phone without
>>>> deleting on the cloud,
>>>> which seems to defeat the purpose of having a cloud backup
>>>>
>>> One can always backup from one "cloud" (Google Photos) to another "cloud"
>>> (say, Amazon S3).
>>>
>>> Note: many Android phones include a uSD slot, so to conserve space on the
>>> "internal" storage, one can insert a uSD card and use that as a alternitive
>>> place to store stuff and keep the internal storage freer.  iPhones specificly
>>> *lack* anything like a uSD slot -- a distent downside to the iPhone.
>>>
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