by jerrythegerbil
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- As a (previous) customer of Proton from many years and a user of their drive product, you should be aware that earlier this year the drive API endpoints began to block their own VPN egress quite often for rate limiting. They also block many cloud provider’s egress. They also don’t officially support rclone, and their changing API spec often breaks the compatibility.
I saw the writing on the wall and migrated rapidly earlier this year ahead of crypto product launches ahead of the email fiasco. It was hard to get data back out, even then.
Proton still stands for privacy. But the dark patterns for lock-in I can do without.
Hetzner Storage boxes with rclone and the “crypt” option are a drop-in replacement, at ~$40 for 20TB. That’s where I went instead.
by augusto-moura
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- Support for proton drive on rclone is still on beta [1], Proton, AFAIK, doesn't provide documented official APIs for accessing their Drive. Much of the work on the rclone plugin was made via reverse engineering and reading Proton's open source projects code
[1]: https://rclone.org/protondrive/
- Why do you need cloud, if you don’t need public sharing?
You can connect to a 2-bay NAS with 20 TB of storage at home with a VPN. Fast, private, secure, practically unlimited storage, under your control. That much storage will be very expensive in the cloud. Proton is like 120$/year for 500GB.
You can also run unlimited applications for free on the same nas: photo management, streaming with apps like plex etc. Each of those apps is an additional cost in the cloud.
- Surely there's better technological solutions for encrypting block data in the cloud with lower risks of service ensh*tification?
- Is it possible to "just sync some files" to Proton Drive in user space without root access? As a paying Proton Mail customer I am annoyed about situation with Proton Drive and non-existing official support for Linux. On the other hand, they will probably drop some kind of electron wrapper of few hundred megabytes, and that won't be useful either.
What about alternatives? Should I just use Filen instead?
- Tresorit is much better than Proton Drive in almost every way
- user uses something that isn't officially supported and finds out it doesn't work
by ranger_danger
1 subcomments
- The project appears to be AI-generated to my eyes
- [dead]
- Neat. I did just buy one of their packages so this will be useful
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