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I'm a customer with them and didn't have any issues for now. It's however relevant to note, that there is no sftp option or the like. So rsync automation doesn't really work. They do have an app to sync folders but it's barebones and you have to take care of file encryption yourself.
Their apps are E2EE.
I would think that would be the bare minimum for a privacy focused provider. Like I said, you have to take care of file encryption yourself (with something like VeraCrypt). Their tool doesn't help you with that.
You mean on your own disk? Makes sense I guess, I wouldn't want my cloud sync client to mess with encrypting files on my SSD.
The point is that before data is uploaded, it's encrypted locally by the Filen client. Job well done I guess.
Thanks for your view. Not sure how other providers take care of file encryption, but in the way I want to use it encrypting the files myself is not an option.
+1 for Filen. They also offer lifetime plans now and then which is always a good deal.
That whole thing with 2TB being the largest plan and then you have to combine plans that might end on different days depending on your order time seems quite convoluted.