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This is self-hosted, so probably easier to apply security through obscurity.

That means no security at all. Without a way to link files being hosted to identity or inspecting the contents of the files, there is no barrier to prevent spam and illegal files from being hosted.

they have a public instance... and just like Mozilla's version you can self-host... but either way we need more services like this.

> we need more services like this

I don’t know. The internet had hundreds of file sharing sites at one point. They all suffered fates similar to the epic MegaUpload although with not as colorful founders as Kim DotCom.

I don’t see how having them again would be different than last time?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload

> They all suffered fates similar to the epic MegaUpload although with not as colorful founders as Kim DotCom

Well it doesn't matter as much in this case because "Send" is a temporary file host.

Mediafire is still alive and I think it's the last hold out from the "big" file sharing websites of the mid/late 2000s. Though honestly I don't miss the download limits, timers and adf ly spam that came with them. Common cloud storage (gdrive, dropbox) are much easier to use and share files from, although they require you to be logged in. Send seems to be the best of both world though.

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