Who has a copy?

Not a conspiracy. Just the terms you already agreed to.

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Google Photos

Every photo you upload is scanned and machine-read.

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Instead

Immich

Runs in your house.

Now

Dropbox, Google Drive

Your files sit on their servers, under their terms.

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Instead

Nextcloud

Runs in your house.

Now

Netflix, Plex

What you watch, and when, is a tracked profile.

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Jellyfin

Runs in your house.

Now

Google Search

Every query is logged against your account.

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SearXNG

Runs in your house.

Now

1Password, LastPass

Your vault lives in someone else’s datacenter.

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Vaultwarden

Runs in your house.

The part nobody says out loud

A company that stores your data can be subpoenaed, breached, sold, or simply change its mind. None of that requires anyone to act in bad faith. It is a property of where the data sits.

Move it into your house and that whole category of risk goes away, and a different one arrives: now the backups are yours to keep. ServerStick does those automatically, but the machine is genuinely your responsibility.

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