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I was looking for the same thing when I accidentally deleted a video from Google Photos app a month back. I didn't find any opensource ones, so I ended up using one from the playstore. Tried a few and turned off wifi before opening them, because I was sure they were going to have a lot of ads and generally don't want anything uploaded without me knowing.
One app worked (I don't even remember the name), then deleted it right away.
https://infosec.pub/post/3135637 https://lemmy.zip/post/900468
You can use nextdns to block a lot of ads. Works on unity ads and playstore ads too I believe. Though not on YouTube.
that doesn't stop them from uploading things in the background.
use Blokada or a PiHole then.