thoughts on mega cloud storage , why it’s not in privacyguides list? It offers good budget plans.

It is your first time here but please avoid making such low effort topics. Search the forum first. Also remember, PrivacyGuides focuses on security and privacy, rather than just “good budget”

In my country, there is a saying that goes: “the cheap ends up being expensive, and what is good costs money.” I believe it applies in this particular case.

It offers e2ee , so why not one can choose this one ?

[image] Fibonacci: Search the forum first. This is always a great thing to do. [image] Filen or Mega or Proton Drive was this rather serious issue: https://mega-awry.io/ Issues like this along with no third party audits make it hard to recommend.

Related topics regarding MEGA: [image] Filen or Mega or Proton Drive I’m not quite sure I’d trust Mega, none of their code is open source to my knowledge and a while ago there was this rather serious issue: https://mega-awry.io/ [image] Tresorit Cloud Storage [image] Tresorit Cloud Stora…

then that’s called source available not open source for one thing. Second at that point I would more recommend Filen over Mega considering they have open source clients (a bit of the AWS and the WebDAV) with proper FOSS License and they do document their encryption over at: whitepaper.pdf …

What do you mean? If it’s for source available vs open source, the party is irrelevant here.

[image] redoomed1: I encourage you to at least look at the appropriate criteria before asking a question like this. Minimum Requirements Must enforce end-to-end encryption. Must offer a free plan or trial period for testing. Must support TOTP or FIDO2 multi-factor authentication, or passkey…

[image] Regime6045: These are all met by MEGA. Half of the best-case criteria too. So I think either we should be able to recommend MEGA (or Filen) on that basis or the criteria need to be changed. Meeting the min requirements has never meant a product or tool will be recommended. Part of the…

Privacy Guides Community

MEGA (Cloud Storage)

Site Development Tool Suggestions

anon29374801 December 30, 2024, 6:34pm 7

This is always a great thing to do.

Issues like this along with no third party audits make it hard to recommend.

Topic		Replies	Views
Encrypted Storage Questions software	15	1835	June 20, 2024
Mega or Tresorit (Privacy & Security) Questions	11	2036	October 25, 2023
Tresorit Cloud Storage Tool Suggestions completed	12	3962	March 10, 2023
Filen or Mega or Proton Drive Questions	22	10319	January 1, 2025
DropBox General	23	1547	April 8, 2024

Privacy Guides

Massive organizations are monitoring your online activities. Privacy Guides is your central privacy and security resource to protect yourself online.

Privacy Guides is a non-profit, socially motivated website that provides information for protecting your data security and privacy.

We do not make money from recommending certain products, and we do not use affiliate links.

Knowledge Base

Private Web Browsers

Top VPN Providers

Privacy-Respecting Services

Software Recommendations

More Resources