# Google Photos

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/google-photos/27917
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** 2025-05-29T07:30:24Z
**Posts:** 4

## Post 1 by @mangomango — 2025-05-29T07:30:24Z

Do you think it is bad for my privacy if I use the Google photos app WITH a Google account but WITHOUT automatic back up to the cloud but with Internet access?  
This is because I may want to use Video Boost so I would just upload to my Google account the videos I want to get boosted.  
I know it’s not a great way to ask my question, decisions are not “bad” / good, not black/white but still, you got my question

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## Post 2 by @bee — 2025-05-29T23:54:45Z

Depends how much you trust Google.

Personally I’d try to avoid it. Keep my photos in ente regularly, and have a work profile or something to move individual photos/videos into if I want to use Google Photos features on them. Something like that.

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## Post 3 by @anon80779245 — 2025-05-30T10:37:19Z

What is the boost? Why do you need it?

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## Post 4 by @mangomango — 2025-05-31T19:33:30Z

I don’t need it but its great because it enhances greatly the quality of the video (even better than a normal video on an iPhone says dxomark).