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Filen free plan. Any good? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by brokenwing@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I was looking for a Google Drive alternative. Its mainly for storing small documents. 10GB is Filen's limit on their free plan. Its more than enough.

But I am concerned about their privacy. Have anyone used it? I am ready to pay for a really good service but if they are giving it for free than I why should I pay if they are private enough?

They also have paid ones but they are an overkill for me. I mainly use offline HDD backups. These are for some quick access files. I don't need an app or anything. Simple web login would be fine.

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[–] Seefoo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I have been playing around with it. Ended up buying more recently of the lifetime stuff. Tried their android app and windows/web interface. Web interface has been 100% rock solid. Android app not so much:

Camera sync sometimes doesn't sync all the pictures. Sometimes it doesn't show synced pictures either, I have to manually navigate to the folder. Not sure whats up.
Android app has a long delay on starting up sometimes.
Poor battery optimization comparatively speaking to alternatives (nextcloud & gphotos)
App occasionally crashes, but that's stopped recently.

Also, just full disclosure I am on Graphene, so sometimes things are a bit different. Recently, I have started to setup their rclone connection to use it as an offsite encrypted backup of ~ half a terabyte of important shit. Its my 2nd offsite backup and I am planning to regularly test that repository (using Kopia). While I am happy with it so far (outside the android app), I am still a bit wary on how reliable they are. They have been around for a few years now, so I feel more confident, just overall being cautious until I see a public audit of their backend. The client code is all OS (supposedly, I haven't confirmed beyond the rclone code), so you can check that if you like (which should at least confirm local encryption before transit).