Privacy-respecting Google Drive alternative with the biggest space avaliable on the Free Plan?

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adespoton@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 247d

Owncloud or nextcloud? Owncloud is a bit less private, but has third party cloud offerings as well, if you don’t want to host it all yourself.

muxika@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 247d

murena.io, maybe, at least where privacy is concerned. (Their free 1GB is laughably small.) But honestly, there's nothing better than hosting your own on old hardware.

cyborganism@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 247d

Proton Drive is pretty good. They have a word processor and now a spreadsheet and can also manage photos with albums. 

TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website · 3 pts · 247d (2 replies)

I’ve heard of a program that make a crypted file that you could put into your Drive.

However

  1. I don’t remember what it was and I’m hoping that someone here could remember it for me
  2. I don’t know how it would work if you open it on a phone or tablet
  3. google will have the data relative to who have access to the file which is kind of their business model
h_ramus@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 247d
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 247d

Rclone works with many providers, and allows for encryption.

Tundra@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 247d (1 reply)
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 246d

Hmmm, strange. When I went to search it on my computer it only listed 1GB, but when I made my account on mobile it did say I had 10GB. Still, thanks. When I get a job (which might be very soon, I'm sending appliances around already), I'll be sure to upgrade to a paid plan and support 'em.

Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 246d

More details?

Today with the ability to store so much at home and then use a clouds as backup, I don't see much use for cloud storage service over which I have little control, and would need to encrypt anything I store there anyway.

I can see use-cases, but for most I'd still rather self-host.

jibjib14@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 246d

I know it's not free but sync.com have a $1/month plan with 25GB and it's fully encrypted.

ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org · -1 pts · 247d (3 replies)

maybe MEGA.io

MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 247d (2 replies)

Hm, I've been told MEGA isn't so privacy friendly.

medem@lemmy.wtf · 3 pts · 246d (1 reply)

I used MEGA for a while and was pretty happy because their free plan is (or was back then) very generous, and they had a BSD command line client. Out of the blue, my account got blocked, and when I logged in, something along these lines appeared on the screen:

'You are using the same password for MEGA and other services. This is a security risk and is not allowed'.

That's one of the shadiest fucking things a cloud company could write. First, not true, second, even if that were true, how would you know it.

MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 246d

Exactly, I wanna leave it.