On: Whatever happened to Flickr?

[aix1]

I don't believe the claim about EXIF location data is accurate -- please see my comment above.

[leephillips → aix1]

That’s good, but the part about losing access to the original files, if true, is a deal-breaker.

[aix1 → leephillips]

I'm not certain that's true either (if "Original Quality" is turned on[1]) but haven't tested it.

That said, I personally only use Google Photos as a sharing site and do archiving offline.

[1] https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791

[marwis → aix1]

Sorry, I should've mentioned this problem applies to images downloaded via API

[marwis → leephillips]

In theory you can download them all via Takeout but that tends to stop working for huge image libraries.

Seems like the only way might be via web scraping.