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.
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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.
I’ve heard of a program that make a crypted file that you could put into your Drive.
However
- I don’t remember what it was and I’m hoping that someone here could remember it for me
- I don’t know how it would work if you open it on a phone or tablet
- google will have the data relative to who have access to the file which is kind of their business model
10gb - https://filen.io/
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.
Proton Drive is pretty good. They have a word processor and now a spreadsheet and can also manage photos with albums.
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.
maybe MEGA.io
Hm, I've been told MEGA isn't so privacy friendly.
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.
Exactly, I wanna leave it.