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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/Rotelle on 2023-06-11 16:47:41+00:00.

i’m starting to think about online backups and icedrive seems like a pretty good value - $5 / month for 1TB and $18 / month for 5TB (with the price going down on year subs)

but i’m also wondering about the privacy of it specifically. the security i’m not too worried about since it’ll be a backup anyway. if you don’t already know

• you need to pay for the special ‘encrypted’ folder, but i’m fine with that
• if you lose your encryption key, you lose access to your encrypted folder and all if its contents. but… that means that icedrive doesn’t know what’s in it either, right? zero-knowledge encryption? so that’s a good thing, right?
• i heard they scan file hashes but i’m not sure the details about that and if they scan the encrypted folder
• it’s not open-source, but i wasn’t able to find an open-source cloud storage service that also had a pretty good value in terms of cost / TB (especially while also having an android client- but long-term i’m not sure if that’ll be required)
• it’s in the UK which is in the 5 eyes, which i don’t love - but how much does that matter for regular joes - isn’t that sort of state sponsored thing moreso for people who are distributing things or are huge international wanted criminals? how much should that be in the threat model of average citizens?