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Ask HN: Send.firefox.com has been down for weeks. What are viable alternatives?
I liked Firefox send to share files with correspondants who aren’t tech savvy and wouldn’t know how to use pgp or who would be confused at a zip file asking for a password. Firefox send was great because it also encrypted the files while on their servers and didn’t need an account to download.
But it’s been down for weeks now.
Any suggestions for a similar tool to replace it?
- BorisEm 6y agoWeTransfer has been the market leader for years now. https://wetransfer.com/ https://wetransfer.com/
- ornornor 6y agoRight but they don’t encrypt the files, do they? So they have a clear copy of it in their servers, correct?
- interactivecode 6y agoselfhosting? https://github.com/mozilla/send https://github.com/mozilla/send
- mijndert 6y agoI've been using Dropshare for a long time. It just connects to a Digitalocean droplet over SSH and transfers files into a directory. https://dropshare.app/ https://dropshare.app/
- aosaigh 6y agoAnother vote for Dropshare. You can use a custom domain with Dropbox Spaces too for nice URLs for your uploads. Dropshare can also generate landing pages for you.
- maps7 6y agoDown for weeks? That's pretty crazy. I wonder why.
- detaro 6y agohttps://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-suspends-firefox-send-service-while-it-addresses-malware-abuse/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-suspends-firefox-send-... i assume
- fabrice_d 6y agoBecause the service was abused to distribute malware payloads. It may come back at some point with mandatory login instead of full anonymous access.
- cpach 6y agoYou can self-host Web Wormhole https://webwormhole.io/ https://webwormhole.io/ Or use the addons that are available for Firefox and Chrome