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I don't know if Mozilla plans to bring it back but I know the solution is just around the corner: host it yourself. If you only want to do things like this you

I don't know if Mozilla plans to bring it back but I know the solution is just around the corner: host it yourself. If you only want to do things like this you could use any SBC - Raspberry Pi etc - running some distribution of some operating system you prefer - Linux, *BSD, etc - hanging off your own internet connection. Either run something cloudy - Nextcloud, Owncloud, Syncthing, Seafile - or find (or make) a program made for this purpose. Get a domain name, use dynamic DNS to keep that name pointing at your IP and you're done - welcome to the world of self-hosted services. Now that you've made a start you'll probably find you start adding services to that box under the stairs. Why pay for Dropbox when you can use your very own box with far more storage for far less money? Run something like Airsonic and you can stream your own media. Instead of having Xi Jinping watching your goldfish through that IP camera you can put the thing in a dedicated network zone, run a VPN on the box and make the camera only accessible through that VPN. The possibilities are close to endless, the costs are low and coming down all the time, power consumption can be negligible if you choose the right hardware. If in the end you don't like running your own services you can always use something run by someone else so why not give it a try...

fnord123 6y ago
>Why pay for Dropbox when you can use your very own box with far more storage for far less money? Managing backups and data integrity is no joke. Almost everyone does a shit job and don't know it until the data is gone.
- vetinari 6y ago
  We as a family run a bunch of Synology NASes and back-up to each other (with different households we get geographical distribution). Running Synology-provided apps Drive (syncing and backing up computers to NAS), Hyperbackup (backing up from one NAS to another) and Moments (takes care of photos from cellphones) has been very simple and does everything we need. All that just for few hundreds of euros; all data are private and nobody is trying to constantly upsell or trying to figure out how to monetize something taken for granted until now.
- Yetanfou 6y ago
  ...as is shown time and time again when some commercial entity fesses up to having lost a few TB of user data, Canon being the latest (?) example of such. If you have family or friends you can make a deal with them: you get to hang a backup storage device off their network, they get to do the same on your network. Send encrypted backups and your data should be safe, and so should theirs. Problem solved, everyone happy and nobody gets to mine your data.

fnord123 6y ago

>Why pay for Dropbox when you can use your very own box with far more storage for far less money? Managing backups and data integrity is no joke. Almost everyone does a shit job and don't know it until the data is gone.

vetinari 6y ago
We as a family run a bunch of Synology NASes and back-up to each other (with different households we get geographical distribution). Running Synology-provided apps Drive (syncing and backing up computers to NAS), Hyperbackup (backing up from one NAS to another) and Moments (takes care of photos from cellphones) has been very simple and does everything we need. All that just for few hundreds of euros; all data are private and nobody is trying to constantly upsell or trying to figure out how to monetize something taken for granted until now.
Yetanfou 6y ago
...as is shown time and time again when some commercial entity fesses up to having lost a few TB of user data, Canon being the latest (?) example of such. If you have family or friends you can make a deal with them: you get to hang a backup storage device off their network, they get to do the same on your network. Send encrypted backups and your data should be safe, and so should theirs. Problem solved, everyone happy and nobody gets to mine your data.