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(Edit: Not European, but can be self hosted) Ente wants to take on Google Photos with its privacy-first photo storage service | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com Ente wants to take on Google Photos with its privacy-first photo storage service | TechCrunch

Despite Google's intentions for its default image viewing and editing app for Android, the Photos app has, over the years, become one of the most popular

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Ente wants to take on Google Photos with its privacy-first photo storage service

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Ente wants to take on Google Photos with its privacy-first photo storage service

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I love ente, but it doesn't fit this community by the way.

Not wanting to sound pedantic tho, sorry.
- For me any migration from big-tech is a win. Especially to self-hosted FOSS alternatives that don't require paid licenses.
  We don't need a hand full of people doing it perfectly, we need a big mass doing it imperfectly.
  That said - I love all those alternatives that we suddenly learn about and hear about. There might be even better solutions for this particular niche.
- That’s why I choose Jotta cloud over Ente, even though I think that Ente might be a better iCloud replacement
  
  Never heard of them, but reading their privacy policy:
  When you register with Jottacloud, you provide us with your name, your email address and phone number hereinafter referred to as Personal Data.
  I just use https://filen.io/ for storage and ente for pictures. Nothing wrong with jotta if it works for you though.
  Also, ente is FOSS and self hostable. In that case it doesn't really matter where it's based.
  
  Are they open source?
- Indeed, sorry. Seems like it can still be self hosted based on another comment?

I tried both (for selfhosting and features) and Immich is way better IMHO
- Immich is not really the same thing. Ente is E2E encrypted and that introduces a significant number of hurdles.
  For some reason I also find Photoprism to be so much faster than Immich, for no reason I can explain. I use the function to keep photos outside of these services so it may just be a case of Photoprism caching more aggressively or something.

I put my email and password and accepted the termxyet it doesn't want to go to the next section of the registration form

I looked at this. There is something to be said of hosting your photos separately from your documents, but to me it doesn't seem worth the money. Anyone has a good experience with Ente / seperate photo hosting? I also hear good things about Immich by the way.
- Self-hosting is possible and without any fees (except your infrastructure) for both Ente and Immich. Personally run Immich for our family at home in our home network and everybody loves it. No cloud fees for Google/Apple photo storage anymore. Handles our current collection of 130K+ photos & videos spanning multiple decades well.
  No experience with Ente, but their privacy focus / encryption support sounds awesome. Immich might have a bigger userbase / dev community through Futo / Louis Rossmann. AFAIK no encryption planned there.
  
  thanks

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