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It's entirely P2P, so no 3rd party hosting of your files, no trusting someone's crypto/update schemes, or having to set up your own servers (although you still can easily add it to a VPS if you want offsite). There's also a nice mobile app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.sy...
You can also securely share directories with another person who uses Syncthing, I've found autosync directories are easier than using something like Airdrop for sharing photos with family.
Has a 5GB free tier, higher tiers cheaper than dropbox. Based in Canada if that matters.
Or Syncthing as others have pointed out.
I'm still thinking which is best.
pCloud's software is solid. I battle tested a number of other cloud services before selecting them. Their implementation is excellent - with virtually every other provider I found missing features or easily discovered bugs when putting them through the ringer in terms of testing.
DDG uses bing under the hood. StartPage proxies requests to Google. I've just personally found the latter to give better consistent results, particularly with my searches for technical/programming issues.