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Comment on Ask HN: Would you pay for a fully encrypted Google Photos alternative?

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No, I'd rather use my own machines, and anyway I don't have the network bandwidth to upload photos.

Do you use google photos already? Or any other photo backup service?

No I don't feel like I need one. I have some photos on personal web pages and a bunch of others in regular directories and I use gthumb sometimes for local viewing. I just don't understand the need for a separate hosted service for every type of file. Photos are files so photo backup is a subset of file backup as far as I can tell. Or do I need separate hosted services for backing up pdfs, C code, Python code, etc.? I'm satisfied with using rsync for everything.

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