Comment on Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail

Mrkawfee@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• capital@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just encrypt before upload and you don’t even need to worry about it.

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  • Plaksys@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But Proton makes encryption the default and way easier and accessible for most people.

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    • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sure, if you trust them and their encryption. If you encrypt yourself you can use any provider you want with no trust involved.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And it’s way cheaper to go with someone like Backblaze and encrypt yourself vs something like Proton.

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  • magikmw@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For cold storage it makes sense, but I always consider UX - there’s not enough solutions that make private key encryption, especially remote, as easy as opening a link or mounting to a directory.

    I’ve used s3ql before, and it’s really nice for making the encryption transparent. Not something pre-encrypting before dropbox upload can provide.
    More, you wanna share those files via dropbox native tools? The recipient better have your private key or you need to reencrypt specifically for them.

    Mentioned tool: github.com/s3ql/s3ql

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    • capital@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve used Cryptomator in the past which was pretty easy.

      Rclone has a way to mount on windows and Linux which I haven’t used personally but I imagine that works like mounting any storage.

      True that it makes all share options moot but I prefer to handle that myself.

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