• andrew0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 hours ago

    Proton offers a Drive, and they’re based in Switzerland. I don’t see them being strong-armed like this by the UK government any time soon.

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      9 hours ago

      Proton sucks, and its not even the whole CEO thing, I could barely download anything using their official Android app, and if it goes background, it just stops working (even with battery optimization disabled).

      I mean, if you only use desktop, sure…

      But their mobile app (at least the Android one) is garbage. You literally cannot have more than like 25 files downloading at once, imagine having 1000 pictures and have to manually download them all… 🤦‍♂️ (yes that’s me, I had 1000 photos and had to manually download them all 25 at a time so it doesn’t crash)

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        7 hours ago

        I also had to upload 2000 photos. The issue was that they had to encrypt each, which took me like 2 days with it running in the background 😅 It could have also been due to my phone being quite old. I don’t rely on it that much, other than using it as an off-site back-up for my most important documents.

        I do agree that the best choice is a self-hosted solution with proper security, but sadly not everyone has the time or the skills to manage that. The Proton CEO thing also annoyed me, but the Proton Foundation as a whole has good opinions about privacy (e.g., against chat control proposal in the EU). However, next time a slip like this happens from them, I’ll probably have had enough time to move my stuff to a local deployment.