Not sure how many people were suffering from it, but Google Photos became adamant about pushing ads. I couldn’t find a replacement in Google Store which wasn’t doing the same. Downloaded F Droid, used alternative to website to find apps, downloaded and now the problem is solved. You can use Google Files to install the F Droid apk to start your journey of degoogling. I’m still using some proprietary apps which work with the Android UI such as Google’s Wallet but everything I could replace I did (unless I’d inconvenience myself like with Contacts). The open source apps have much better UIs and don’t bombard me with ads or other stuff the big corp wants to push like their accounts. I wish I had done it sooner and this post was made to encourage other people to do that. I tried Aurora Store, but Google doesn’t let me login. It tells me it would give me a popup to type a number into, but the popup never comes. Anyone knows what app pushes the popup? Is Aurora a full replacement for Play Store or do I need to have both installed?
So what did you replace Google photos with ?
Immich is very good and pretty much a complete replacement.
Should note that Immich doesn’t have content provider support on Android, so you still need another gallery app to act as a file picker to select images in other apps. Other than that, I love it
Aves Libre.
Aves is great!
Not OP but moved all my stuff onto hosted Nextcloud, so using Nextcloud photos app. Just as good and no ads.
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