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  • Download all of your Google Photos data from Google Takeout. Then, upload said data either to something like Ente Photos with a subscription, or an immich server if you’re willing to self-host.

    An Immich server isn’t too overly complicated to set up. You just need a big hard drive, and either an old computer that’s just lying around or a cheap and small new computer. It may still take you some headaches and a period of time to properly set up, switch to and get accustomed to but the Immich documentation is pretty good and easy to follow. That plus a bit of googling should be enough of a guide to get properly set up. Beware though, self hosting is something you need take continuous care of and there may be a lot to learn. If that sounds scary I would just say go with Ente. You can still self host Ente, but you can also just pay a subscription and it would be no different or more complicated than switching from iCloud to Google Photos plus you wouldnt have to worry about actually doing the work and maintenance of running a server.













  • There are numerous user agent switcher extentions you can use across both the chrome web store and the firefox web store. However since Firefox supports extentions on mobile, unlike chrome, you could say that it is a Firefox extention for this use case.

    Explanation of what a user agent is, just in case:

    A user agent is a small piece of text your browser sends to websites that includes information about the operating environment of the user, stuff like browser version and the operating system.

    Normally, if I went to Reddit on Android, Reddit could see from my user agent that I was on android device, so Reddit could prompt me to download the app and block my acsess to the reddit content from the website with the popup mentioned in the post.

    Basically, changing your user agent is like making your browser lie to websites by saying “I am Chrome running on Windows” rather than “I am Firefox running on Android”, causing Reddit to falsely believe that I am not using a smartphone, therefore it would be dumb to tell me to use the smartphone app instead of the website, therefore the popup doesnt appear and I can use the Reddit website on my phone freely.