Escape Google Photos
Free your photos
Whether at home or in the cloud, your photos deserve a new host.
Let’s not catastrophise – no one’s going to lose any photos for a couple of years. But perhaps it’s a timely reminder that things freely given can be freely taken away.
We should note that photos uploaded in their original quality have always counted towards the 15GB Google quota (and will continue to do so). The new rules concern images uploaded using High and Express quality compression. So serious photographers are unlikely to be bothered by this. But for millions of users it’s yet another iteration of a Google service becoming less useful. Of course, if you want to pay for more storage then Google One will be happy to take your money (100GB of storage will cost you £15.99 per year).