Google does.
On my Pixel Phone similar pictures are grouped so I can choose to keep only 1 of them.
I also receive often notifications to delete/archive some photos (mostly documents or out of focus pictures).
I pay Google One annually. It’s only 20 for 100 GB. When you pay monthly it’s a little bit more, not much.
Yes, I’m a slave to Google, but it’s quite good to search pictures and it makes great memory albums.
FYI: I bought the iCloud+. But apparently, the Shared Albums do not count towards the quota/limit. And also they’re limited with regards to the quality. And you can only have max 1000 photos per album and 200 albums.
And the import is really crappy! There is no way to import multiple albums, you have to create each one by hand! So bad!
If you share only with up to 5 family members, just use Shared Photo Library.
I personally just have an external HD and dump the pictures there from time to time. Also low resolution copy in google photos (free so far).
Also probably soon I will set up a NAS at home for this.
That’s just asking for trouble. In my life, I had 2 HDs die on me. Then all that data is gone. I guess you could also say, you then no more have the problem of where to store your data as you have no data 
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That’s another “famous” possibility:
Please create a second backup. Assume that the HD has a 1% chance of breaking everytime you use it.
At the end I dump in the computer and then copy to a HD. if ones died I have the other. if both died, data is gone.
Going to another point, what’s the mean of storing all the photos, you save time, but you never check them as 90% is whatsapp shitty pictures or non interesting ones.
it is the same as you just store all paper that reach your post in a drawer, good luck to find something meaningful there
I only store photos that I shot myself, without the random whatsapp memes.
I just like them to remind myself of random memories that are in my brain, but that I couldn’t recall anymore.
Maybe as a little anectode: My parents (in their 70s) often say they wish they had more photos of when they were younger, of their own parents, and of their old houses.
So Google got their claws in to me. I used up the 100G and now have to pay 30 CHF for their 200G tier. Next tier up is 100 CHF for 2000G.
Before I do that, I might just host my own file server and save my photos there. Until then, Google can collect their 30 CHF per year from me 
I’m paying 50chf per month for Google Workspace for all 4 family members. 8TB of storage (only 2TB used), enough. Every year or two I try to move everybody to a always newly installed Nextcloud instance. The acceptance in the family is not there (yet), especially with the AI stuff the kids use for school etc.
A pure file server or some specific for photos like immich or photoprism? You may check Hetzner Cloud servers (from 4 EUR) with object storage quite affordable 5.39 EUR for 1 TB.
EDIT: I see now, it’s not cheaper as googles 100chf
I already run my own AI servers, so I could also install Immich with little marginal cost.
Yeah but the self hosted route is not that much cheaper. It’s a great route if you enjoy doing this stuff and care about having control over your data, but I wouldn’t call it more mustachian.
Saying this as I’m deep in the rabbit hole, paid few hundred bucks for a nas, hard drives, then some more for a small minipc to run services, then figured out I wanted a good secure and easy access from outside so I subscribed for a few chf per month to a domain name and basic vps. The found out I need a backup, and don’t have energy to do it manually every other day, so went for a Hetzner storage box.
I ended up paying for hardware AND having monthly subscriptions. And it’s not as user friendly as the usual cloud providers.
I love it for the control it gives and what I’ve learned along the way, but it’s neither economical, nor easy.
If you care about keeping old pictures it’ll cost something, and frankly the few bucks for Google or apple are worth it. But if you feel nerdy and curious, try the self hosted way!
Just to add something here: the cloud is not a proper backup. Even if you use e.g. iCloud Photo Library, you still need to backup your data separately.
I’m surprised nobody talked about Synology. Or maybe I missed it..
You’re probably right but I did this after postponing this task for a couple years and will likely be too lazy to do more than that…
Synology is one of the NAS options—quite popular, although it has been losing popularity in recent years, due to its outdated hardware and the shift towards proprietary HDDs…
I’ve been a satisfied user for over 10 years, but I agree with what @EdgyTwinkle mentioned: from a purely financial perspective, it doesn’t necessarily outperform cloud providers (which also typically offer more user-friendly interfaces), especially considering that you still need an offsite backup—whether online or to a second device.
The decision to go with NAS devices is likely more driven by an interest in the system itself and/or a desire for greater control over one’s data.
My NAS is actually a synology, and indeed we could use it without spending more than the NAS and drives themselves, by using the synology apps. But you know, once you’re there you’ll want to install more services, and/or people online will bully you for daring to use synology connect (ie relying on their servers to connect to YOUR device), and you’ll end up like me with a complicated setup and more monthly fees.
But yes it’s true there’s a middle ground where you don’t want to dive too deep, just buy a synology and use their apps and synology connect. With physical backups you’d not depend on any paid subscription, just the hardware and your continuous motivation and discipline.
This is true. A friend of mine went the whole hog and installed servers at his parents house to give him an offsite backup.
Even if you solve this, there’s one additional issue: what happens when you die? Who will be able to figure it all out?
Reminds me of myself relocating (for Google) from Zurich to Australia, establishing a (work related) workstation with a private drive as a backup for my Zurich (work related) workstation where I stored some, ahem, not really work related photos … half around the planet redundancy! Of course, if you need that kind of redundancy, your photos are probably the least of your worries …
Eventually, upon moving back to Zurich, I forgot about the Sydney drive. At some point, it was not accessible anymore to me, someone must have “acquired” it.
Since the launch of Google Photos, I use them as my ultimate backup. Even since they abandoned the “all your photos for free forever” policy, and me ulitimately not trusting a public corp, but I feel it’s the best cost/buck compromise (as I don’t feel the need to back up all my photos at 100 GB per photo, just at the lowest free tier (resolution per photo) currently offered by them).