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I recently moved away from Dropbox due to its increasing hostility. I am currently evaluating pCloud, though I am not sure they are the one I want to go with: They have some severe problems with consistency across syncs and they allow themselves to push advertisement through their desktop apps ie. they are highly intrusive. I guess I will give them the year I paid for and then move on.

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I tried about half a dozen cloud backup solutions and Dropbox, so far, is the only one who can deliver the only thing that matters to me: Consistency. Dropbox actually works and it works well. It can handle suddenly having thousands of tiny text files, it can handle a 5GB PDF, it handles foreign letters in file names and it has a sane way of determining which file version is the current one when switching between platforms.

It gives me cold sweat to read headlines like this since there aren't enough alternatives to Dropbox that "just work". Similar to what happens to Apple. I have no idea why Dropbox is fucking around with their shit so much. I'd happily pay a dollar more here and there (and they just increased pricing!), just don't do bullshit in the background.

pCloud has terrible security. They don't even use https in all places.

They also don't state what encryption they use. They rolled their own ig.

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