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Re:How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac by aRationalMoose on Friday September 09, 2016 @01:29PM (#12464322)
Got a good alt suggestion?
Re:How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac by aerique on Friday September 09, 2016 @02:18PM (#12464749)
The German branch of Seafile: https://seafile.de/en/products/

I switched all my data (about 250Gb) to them from Dropbox a couple of months ago and it has worked out well enough.

Features:

- servers not based in the US

- encryption

- privacy

- open source (thanks lima)

- multiple libraries (like multiple separate Dropbox folders)

- nice file manager for unsynced (parts of) libraries

- price

- payment options (Bitcoin)

- supports more OSes

- one can run one's own server

Cons vs Dropbox:

- syncing problems not always obvious

- some UX issues

- photo support

- selective sync cumbersome (if not using libraries)

- no LAN sync

Re:How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac by lima on Friday September 09, 2016 @02:26PM (#12464813)
And Seafile is open source, too.
Re:How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac by arximboldi on Friday September 09, 2016 @07:24PM (#12466745)
I use Syncthing: https://syncthing.net/

Totally distributed, works like magic. Being distributed means you do have to blindly trust a third party, but also that don't have to worry about $ per megabite. For example, one of the machines I have in my Syncthing network is a Raspberry Pi with a 3TB drive getting a backup of my laptop $HOME and important stuff from other machines all the time.

Re:How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac by rocky1138 on Friday September 09, 2016 @10:02PM (#12467285)
Is it a Pi 1? I tried for months to get it to work with it, but even overclocked, it was still too damn slow to function.

I love Syncthing, though, but I had to take the Pi out of the pool.

Re:How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac by arximboldi on Saturday September 10, 2016 @08:11AM (#12468827)
Yeah, admittedly I also tried with a Pi 1 but it was too slow, now I have a Pi 3 for that.
Re:How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac by 794CD01 on Friday September 09, 2016 @01:32PM (#12464353)
Spideroak, if your reason for switching is privacy.
Re:How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac by simias on Friday September 09, 2016 @04:00PM (#12465601)
I use (and pay for) Spideroak pretty much for that reason but given that their client is not open source I kinda feel like it's just homeopathic security. They could backdoor my client and I wouldn't know better.

So I definitely wouldn't store very sensitive stuff on SpiderOak either but I guess it's slightly better than dropbox.

Re:How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac by tedmiston on Friday September 09, 2016 @03:50PM (#12465524)
Re:How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac by agotterer on Friday September 09, 2016 @01:36PM (#12464379)
Has anyone tried sync.com? From their website they claim end to end encryption and seem to take privacy ands security seriously.
Re:How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac by danieldk on Friday September 09, 2016 @01:49PM (#12464496)
As long as the client is proprietary, how can one know that they are any better than Dropbox?

Feature-wise sync.com looks interesting, but there seem to be very few users out there. I would be worried that they disappear when they run out of VC money.