Lol. Digital life.
this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2025
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Lest Android users (like myself) think we're immune, Google has been known to nuke accounts too, leading to a similar outcome.
I've been trying my best to get out of a "one account for all" mentality - photo backups are probably the #1 problem for me right now.
I've got the local storage, but I'm not sure about exposing immich to the Internet for photos access when I'm not at home.
If you're not above paying I've seen good things about Ente. They have a free account with a pretty small limit to try it out.
you don't hear these horror stories often, but often enough to reinforce my conviction to never ever ever fucking ever buy a single apple product
Also if you don't have your ~~date~~ data under your control, you are at the mercy of some company.
But Google or Amazon isn't better. I feel like people aren't informed enough of these cases at all.
i'm not saying non-apple platforms are "good." but they don't have the same closed-circuit ecosystem business model that apple has. apple controls all their hardware and core proprietary software, which not only limits your third party options to whatever apple chooses to allow, but now you've got the "all your eggs in one basket" issue, which, if i were that person who's been a loyal apple customer for 20+ years, having purchased tens of thousands of dollars of hardware to become deeply entrenched in this cultish...thing... only to lose it all for some stupid clerical bullshit...then, to me, yes--that's objectively worse than google or anything else--even though those other options are fucking terrible also
edit: let's not forget to mention how stupidly overpriced apple crap is, while doing absolutely nothing that other platforms can't do
I just wanted to say that switching to another big company isn't solution. And even though they do not have such huge proportion of hardware devices, many people use Google or Amazon (or similar) to sign into many services or devices like security cameras, smart locks. And this really huge problem, when one company could lock you out of everything for no real reason. It should be much more regulated.
i mean now you're talking about trusting big tech (any big tech) with things like your home cameras and door locks. which to my mind is dumb to begin with. there are cameras that record to a hard drive and don't touch the internet. and while a plain old deadbolt lock on your door isn't 100% guaranteed security, how tf does tying it to a big tech company improve...anything?
i was talking about personal computing and data storage/access solutions. which, again, apple is a no-go. for any of that
I have an apple iphone but I back my photos up with Immich and passwords with firefox, Spotify instead of Apple music, Telegram, etc and I'm essentially isolated from the Apple ecosystem, if they lock me out of my account I lose pretty much nothing except the value of the phone
The begging is sad too. "I'm special! I'm on your side! I'm one of youuuuuu!"
The beast eats friend and foe alike.
it's just so pathetic :\
It's almost like having a single point of failure, putting your entire digital life and livelihood into the hands of a single uncaring corporation, is a bad idea or something. wild!
Privacy should be guarded like gold, the royal jewels, priceless works of art, and democracy. Never give permission to others for control of it.
Out of sight, out of mind for most people.
At this point doesn't he have grounds to sue? I know there was something in the license agreement, but that amount of money might be worth a round checking it out.
Talk about putting all your eggs in one basket.