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What is the best cloud storage provider right now? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What is the best cloud storage that gives a nice balance between features and privacy? I know you can manually encrypt files to use any provider, but I would prefer an open source E2EE for the sake of convenience.

Currently I have heard about the following:

proton
filen
sync
icedrive
pcloud

(Not including GDrive, Onedrive etc..)

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (3 children)

When it comes to privacy and security, I think you should treat all cloud providers equally. Use a client with client-side encryption so that the only thing that touches the provider is encrypted data.

Rclone is an example of a good client that can do this, and can even mount your cloud storage as a filesystem with its encryption layer in between.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

yep. I use backblaze B2 with rclone, and just don't worry since it's encrypted (including the file names) before it leaves my server.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Yeah that's what I do. I use filen because it's nice and easy to use and I got in early and got a good deal on a lifetime plan (actually two because you could stack them at the time, I dunno if you still can), but yeah I encrypt everything locally first before I upload it so it doesn't really matter if it gets stolen or whatever.

If you do that then I don't think it really matters especially where you put it.

[+] ultratiem 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've been thinking about a 'RAID5' of free storage providers as a way to overcome this, shouldn't be too hard to implement, but I'm busy atm. I wonder if their TOS are already onto this, but conversely, how could they tell?