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Re:Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June... by identity0 on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @05:23PM (#25063718)
Do you actually use that? Maybe it's just because I have few photos, but I always thought it was a massive gimmick. If I wanted to see photos from a specific vacation, I just remember when it happened, or look up the location in the geotagging thing. No ML needed. I've never once wished I could see all my photos of "dog on beach" in one place.
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Re:Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June... by com2kid on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @05:39PM (#25063879)
> Do you actually use that? Maybe it's just because I have few photos

I use it all the time.

I wanted to recommend to a friend a restaurant I'd visited in San Diego, I couldn't remember the name of it but I knew I'd taken a picture of the food there.

"Food San Diego" and all my food pictures from my trip to San Diego pop up. Tap more info, boom, map appears with the restaurant name on it.

If I wanted to remember what year I went to San Diego, well, I'd either search in Google Photos, or in my timeline on Google Maps. (which is another way to find the name of the restaurant!)

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Re:Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June... by hamilyon2 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @06:21AM (#25068681)
It is life-changing feature for those of us who don't remember when they took picture of what. Even with a few thousand photos, looking up something important in seconds (instead of an hour) is huge.
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Re:Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June... by bootlooped on Thursday November 12, 2020 @08:58AM (#25069860)
It starts to make it viable to not meticulously organize things into albums.
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