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Re:Show HN: Keeplea – photograph everything you want to reme... by Glitcher255 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @09:26AM (#49521719)
How do you handle user's privacy? what servers are my private pictures being uploaded to to be scanned? how do you handle your server costs? I find the idea to be convenient but the last thing I want is an AI sorting my dick pics for me.
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Re:Show HN: Keeplea – photograph everything you want to reme... by BrainQuanta on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @11:57AM (#49523787)
Fair question :) Well, first of all, only the photos you explicitly select go to the app. No permissions given for the whole gallery. So you can just avoid uploading dick pics to Keeplea :)

What you (and only you) decide to upload, then goes to Cloud Storage and Gemini. So the only provider your photos are shared with is Google.

But the honest part is that the data is not end-to-end encrypted. In transit and at rest, yes, but I run the project, so technically I can look. I don't and I have special machinery around my processes so that I never do this unintentionally, but that's still a promise. Do you think this would be a blocker for potential app users? What can I do if the on-device processing is not an option?

About costs. It's subscriptions, nothing else. Free tier stops at 20 captures, Pro is $9.99/month (for US, different for other countries). Processing itself is very cheap (a small fraction of a cent per photo).

Thanks!

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