I was researching Internxt and noticed the generally negative feedback on this site, though most posts are over a year old. Given their frequent updates and transparent approach to growth, I’m wondering if the consensus has changed.
Is Internxt still considered an unfavorable service, or have things improved?
They have google tag manager on their website. It (the website) generally looks scammy imo.
I don’t really see the value in Trustpilot; it’s 99% for people to complain. I just looked up Proton on Trustpilot, and they have an even worse score.
Maybe I asked the wrong question: are they secured, and have they been audited?
The fact that this company threatened to sue a researcher who published an assumed security vulnerability as a first reaction, left me with a very bad taste.
(I am not making in claims whether the concerns here were valid, I am no cryptographer, but this is a very shady way of handling criticism.
Hello,
We explained why the report was false, but right now we use post-quantum cryptography and will do another security audit in the future anyway. Will update when this happens.
I was not pointing about the validity of the report, but that the first response is immediate legal action.
They don’t even have the option to automatically upload images/videos, one of the most basic features. On top of that they spam you with 80/90% off deals via e-mail. I’ve used it for a few days and canceled my subscription, because of this shortcoming and spammy actions. The sales also seem to be permanent, which scream scam to me, please don’t do that. Cloud storage should provide complete trust.
Things like this also don’t work in Internxt favor: Just wanted to share my bad experience with Internxt - r/cloudstorage
Unfortunately I just tried Internxt and left me a very bad taste. I could upload, with a lot of issues, around 50GB of data. I tried to upload more things but kept failing (all below their “limit” of 40GB per upload as I learned later). But I had the most problems when trying to access my own data or download it, it was just impossible. Kept stalling or failing.
Their support is also very bad, they don’t respond or take a very long time.
This on top of all the other problems mentioned early in this discussions.
I published my honest review on Reddit (r/cloudstorage), won’t share here because I don’t mean to spam or anything, but there are plenty of stories there about how bad and unreliable Internxt is.
Just found out about this service, and am curious what people think of it in 2026. I think I have probably heard of it before but never actually checked it out.
I am surprised that every time a new privacy service is discovered, the first instinct of some people in the PG community is to ask for it to be on the recommended list. It’s great to let people know about it, and I’m not against anyone personally recommending it, but asking for a relatively new and relatively unknown service to be put on the PG recommendation list is a little too premature, IMHO.
LOOKS A LOT LIKE FILEN
The first thing that strikes me about Internxt visually is that it looks a lot like Filen.
As someone who uses Filen, this piqued my interest because Filen is still missing some basic features like global search. If Internxt already has that feature, that’s a plus for me. I also see that they have lifetime plans, which is great, but the way they are so aggressively marketed does feel a little fishy. Filen didn’t advertise their lifetime plans like that.
Also, I am shocked by how fast Internxt is able is able to grow compared to Filen, which is still relatively unknown inside and outside the privacy community.
E2EE OR ZERO KNOWLEDGE?
The first article is from 2023 and says this with regard to E2EE:
For end-to-end encryption, we use your mnemonic as an encryption key (the only one with access to that mnemonic is you). We also utilize an element called IV, which is a randomly generated number that adds entropy to the encryption algorithm. We do store the IV, but this is not an element that can be used to decrypt your data.
The second article is from 2025 and says the following:
And that’s where end-to-end encryption comes into place. Although still less secure than zero-knowledge encryption, end-to-end encryption is a system of communication where only the communicating users who have the key can read the messages. User data is decrypted but only on their personal device, never on the server.
I didn’t know there was a difference between E2EE and zero knowledge encryption.
Can someone confirm if the latter is indeed superior?
All of Internxt’s marketing says zero-knowledge encryption not E2EE.
Yet in that 2023 article, they say they are E2EE.
Which is it?
I am inclined to believe the former.
ENSHITTIFIED?
So far, Internxt’s cloud service seems a little too good to be true. Even if they are sound from a technical privacy standpoint, how they market themselves and respond to criticism still makes me hold reservations.
I also don’t like the apparent enshittification of their free tier either.
ASKING FOR 2026 FEEDBACK
At this stage, I still find Filen to be more trustworthy. Part of me is still tempted by Internxt’s lifetime plans, but I want to know if anyone here pays for their service in 2026.
If yes, what is your experience?
If I’m not mistaken techlore is thinking of doing a review on this service, or at least he breafly mentioned it on his last video. For those intrested, I’d recommend waiting for his take on Internxt.
To me it seems like another NordVPN. It’s a Spanish company that came out of no where, listed on privacytools.io, they also sponsor soccer clubs and offer lifetime plans with an 80% off discount (which has been running for years, btw) which include a VPN, Antivirus, a “Cleaner” and Meet software amongst other stuff.
Too good to be true imo, I wouldn’t trust them at all.
Yeah, I discounted them after using it briefly. Too many inconsistencies and small concerns for my liking.
Internext is nothing special. I’d trust Filen or even Koofr more.
I’m very curious what @henry-fisher has to say about it. Techlore has an archived page about Internxt on their now defunct forum. It’s from March 2025, though.
From what I gather, when it comes to privacy services, PG and Techlore, usually make videos on established trusted services or promising new services. Internxt doesn’t seem to fall into either. All this is to say, I would understand why neither of them would feel compelled to make a video about Internxt. If a lot of privacy conscious people were being misled into trusting Internxt, that could warrant a video too.
Yes. They seem to want to grow too fast, unlike Filen whose growth has been very slow, but whose focus remains steady on one product.
I read their whitepaper on cloud storage and left with the impression that none of their products have been reviewed by cryptographers. Their extension allows anyone to use their France server without creating accounts to their production APIs. If I was able to generate a PoC that abused their infrastructure to anyone wanting to piggyback in half an hour, I wouldn’t put my data on there.
// ===== TOKEN MANAGEMENT =====
// Fetch anonymous token from Internxt VPN API
const Zn = async () => {
const e = Yn(gt); // https://vpn.internxt.com
const { data: t } = await axios.get(`${e}/users/anonymous/token`);
return t;
};
and then they go on and have practices like this:
// ===== PROXY AUTHENTICATION INTERCEPTOR =====
// Inject credentials into proxy requests
chrome.webRequest.onAuthRequired.addListener(
function(n) {
if (n.isProxy) {
return {
authCredentials: {
username: t.connection ?? "FR",
password: t.token ?? ""
}
};
}
return {};
},
{ urls: ["<all_urls>"] },
["blocking"]
);