Oh, wow, I was expecting a comment about privacy from the preview I got of your message and then it went on to talk about risk to the provider instead! Yes, you’ve definitely identified a risk and I hope to mitigate it with hopes, prayers, and as anonymous access logs as I can get while still identifying public, popular images.

I’ve been hosting immich for a long time and finally decided to make a website so people could sign up for paid monthly accounts and upload their stuff to the server that I’m going to run anyway. Maybe it’ll make me beer money.