Privacy Guides
In the digital age, protecting your personal information might seem like an impossible task. We’re here to help.
This is a community for sharing news about privacy, posting information about cool privacy tools and services, and getting advice about your privacy journey.
You can subscribe to this community from any Kbin or Lemmy instance:
Check out our website at privacyguides.org before asking your questions here. We've tried answering the common questions and recommendations there!
Want to get involved? The website is open-source on GitHub, and your help would be appreciated!
This community is the "official" Privacy Guides community on Lemmy, which can be verified here. Other "Privacy Guides" communities on other Lemmy servers are not moderated by this team or associated with the website.
Moderation Rules:
- We prefer posting about open-source software whenever possible.
- This is not the place for self-promotion if you are not listed on privacyguides.org. If you want to be listed, make a suggestion on our forum first.
- No soliciting engagement: Don't ask for upvotes, follows, etc.
- Surveys, Fundraising, and Petitions must be pre-approved by the mod team.
- Be civil, no violence, hate speech. Assume people here are posting in good faith.
- Don't repost topics which have already been covered here.
- News posts must be related to privacy and security, and your post title must match the article headline exactly. Do not editorialize titles, you can post your opinions in the post body or a comment.
- Memes/images/video posts that could be summarized as text explanations should not be posted. Infographics and conference talks from reputable sources are acceptable.
- No help vampires: This is not a tech support subreddit, don't abuse our community's willingness to help. Questions related to privacy, security or privacy/security related software and their configurations are acceptable.
- No misinformation: Extraordinary claims must be matched with evidence.
- Do not post about VPNs or cryptocurrencies which are not listed on privacyguides.org. See Rule 2 for info on adding new recommendations to the website.
- General guides or software lists are not permitted. Original sources and research about specific topics are allowed as long as they are high quality and factual. We are not providing a platform for poorly-vetted, out-of-date or conflicting recommendations.
Additional Resources:
- EFF: Surveillance Self-Defense
- Consumer Reports Security Planner
- Jonah Aragon (YouTube)
- r/Privacy
- Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List
Thanks, should have looked there of course, but I'm interested in personal experiences as well.
Proton drive works well for me
Another vote for Proton drive. It's reliable enough for me
Thanks for the suggestion! I have protonmail (paid) and I think I have 500GB storage space currently. Unfortunately that is insufficient space, because I'm going towards the 1TB. I'll have a look at the other plans, perhaps they offer more space :)
Proton Drive is well on the way but missing a lot of features and the smoothness of other cloud providers. I think they need 6-12 months to really be up to snuff.
Free trial available.
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.
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.
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.
+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.
filen.io, mega,
I've been using Koofr.eu for years and never had a single problem. They offer many interesting integrations with encryption tools, WebDAV...
The app creates backups of my phone media (you can choose the folders you want to update) instantaneously, and with its desktop app I can also access to the stuff in my computer.
If you just want a place to backup photos, I'd use something safe and reliable (I use windows one drive cuz I have one TB there anyway) in combination with cryptomator. Literally cannot go wrong.
Never trust stuff that sounds too good to be true. Companies like pCloud sometimes have lifetime offers of like 1000 TB for $200 or something. But a quick search will lead you to countless complaints of people that got their account disabled for some kind of 'violation of terms'
Encrypting the files not really an option for me. I backup the photos but simultaneously they are used in PhotoPrism for collection, meta data changes, etc. Or I need to think about adopting another workflow...
But where are you running photo prism?
I'm running it on my NAS. I would like a non local backup of my files.
I'm using MEGA and it works nicely (I have the free 50G version) Anything really sensitive that I still want to sync I put inside a veracrypt container.
If you have a server that you can sync the photos with (using Syncthing for example), then I recommend using Rclone or Duplicati to save your backups (encrypted) to any cloud that you want. I'm using OneDrive and GoogleDrive for my encrypted backups, pretty happy with the setup.
If you don't have a server, then Filen or Proton Drive looks like great services.
Whatever you do, always test your backups!
I like your suggestion! I have a Proxmox server running. I'm I right to understand that rclone or duplicati take care of the file encryption? This would mean no easy way to access files in your backup, but I don't see that as a problem
Yes, both Rclone and Duplicati will handle the encryption for you. For Rclone, there's an Android app called RCX that lets you access the files. The reason I sometimes use Duplicati is because of the incremental backups, where I don't think it's possible for Rclone. Rclone is literally a clone from your disk to some cloud.
Ah that is good to know. I really appreciate the tip!
Mega offers e2ee and good prices. Collaboration does not update correctly on mobile (android and ios). Besides that, works well.
Koofr is also very good with a full e2ee option for the paranoid. You can also pay with Monero which is important. Any service that is selling privacy but does not offer a private method of payment is half-assed. Mega only takes Btc and calls all other crypto "shitcoins." Draw your own conclusions.
Sync.com works well for me.
Don't use ANY form of a cloud if you actually care about your privacy. Local backups only.
This is terrible advice if you even somewhat care about data loss, security, and syncing up content on many devices.
Can you explain further? I'd like to hear other viewpoints on this. It's possible I am an idiot.
In form of data backup you should follow the 3 2 1 rule, which involves off-site backups, which is cloud storage. If you plan on accessing anything out of the house, that involves self hosting which means exposing your devices to the greater internet. Each thing you expose is now a new service that needs constant maintenance and potential security issues, not including everything you may misconfigure. That's a lot of security issues for a regular person. You also need to self host these things if you want to sync real time between your devices, which is also important for backups.
Wait I'm so sorry. I are you saying my advice is bad? Or OP's?
As in not using cloud backups is bad idea
I mean what if you just had 2 HDDs mirrored on site and then like 1 or 2 copies off site? That's basically the 3 2 1 rule but manual
Yeah, that'd be cloud storage lol
Lol gotchya.