Submitted 7 months ago by badgrandpa@lemmy.world to privacyguides@lemmy.one
I’m just wondering why Filen.io isn’t included in the privacyguides.org. It’s great cloud service with execlent privacy and good pricing too.
Looks like they offer lifetime plans, I definitely associate those with services that aren’t well made and don’t stick around long.
they also offer other plans
We are working on establishing defined criteria for every section of our site, and this may be subject to change. If you have any questions about our criteria, please ask on our forum and don’t assume we didn’t consider something when making our recommendations if it is not listed here. There are many factors considered and discussed when we recommend a project, and documenting every single one is a work-in-progress.
I may be being overly pedantic here but that statement, whilst I don’t doubt its good intent, always reads to me like a bit of a get out of jail free card.
I’m not sure how much weight you can place on a recommendation when the full criteria isn’t know and can be changed on a whim. And yes, I’m aware I can browse the forum, ask and see for myself but I’m not sure your average user is going to feel confident enough to do that.
There seem to be some concerns: github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/…/345
That’s the discussion that’s approaching 3 years old.
I’m only part way through the thread, do you have any spoilers for whether it’s considered safer now?
leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
A recent PG forum thread is discussing it. PG deemed it not secure enough almost three years ago, based on solid reasoning.
However, that was three years ago and the product has altered dramatically. I just don’t think it’s been resuggested/evaluated since then.
PG forum users (and PG itself) are pretty inconsistent with how they judge stuff. Not trusting one company (Filen) because there were issues three years ago (and are now, as I understand it, fully addressed) but totally trusting another company (Brave browser) despite repeated actions that erode trust is odd behaviour.
I’m a filen user myself, just in the interests of full disclosure.
LWD@lemm.ee 6 months ago
A single privacy mistake is a tragedy; ongoing privacy mistakes are a statistic. Nobody can remember quite what Brave did wrong (up until their most recent blunder). Quite a few more people constantly remember, say, that DuckDuckGo’s browseronce didn’t block Microsoft cookies and often exaggerate it to “they sent user data to Microsoft”