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That's a good example of the paraphrased quote "don't make software for privacy people, they'll never be happy". They fixed it, yet every other service is doing far worse behavior. Dont hold backblaze on a higher pedestal than amazon unless you only want amazon to exist.

Backblaze is the most affordable and available remote storage/cdn service available, by miles. Go look at a calculator between amazon and backblaze.

The actually give half a care and even partner with various providers so your outgoing bandwidth is free to them.

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What bothers me is using facebook tracking scripts in the first page, particularly for internal customer pages. Of course I'm not happy with them working with facebook at all.

Other services doing worse things is not an excuse. I don't want to go with amazon either, hence my question here.

Vast majority of websites integrate facebook or google or both their SDKs.

But they don't work with them. They have to it in order to run ads and as result to survive.

> yet every other service is doing far worse behavior

Please provide specific sources of AWS, GCP, or Azure leaking file names and sizes to a third party.

For a large number of Windows and Mac users who have less than 1 TB to backup (or less than 6 TB if they are willing to put up with a fair amount of hassle) there is a far less expensive option.

I speak of Windows and Mac users who got a Microsoft 365 subscription for the Microsoft Office apps. That comes with 1 TB of OneDrive, or 6 TB if you get the family subscription.

OneDrive has API access which is supported by a fair number of commercial and open source backup programs.

You can get a family subscription without being a family. All you actually need is the ability to control 5 extra email addresses, one for each fake family member. Your 6 TB would end up partitioned into 6 1 TB buckets so as I said, would be somewhat of a hassle to use.

But if you only need 1 TB, and want or need Office anyway, and don't really have a lot of non-backup cloud needs, then OneDrive is a good, often overlooked option.

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