> I trust Spideroak because the are transparent and I know how they are making money. When I looked into choosing a vendor in this space a while ago, I remembe

> I trust Spideroak because the are transparent and I know how they are making money. When I looked into choosing a vendor in this space a while ago, I remember Spideroak coming under a lot of fire for their use of "zero-knowledge" in marketing materials, which was at best naive and possibly much worse [1] [2]. From memory there were also issues with an unlimited plan[3][4] and refreshing contact with servers to maintain an unchanged backup. As you say it's always sensible to pay for something you value and no one's perfect, but I wouldn't hold them up as an example of transparency done right. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13852139 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13852139 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13303436 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13303436 [3] https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/6lpm49/spideroak_will_throttle_upload_speed_for/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/6lpm49/spidero... [4]https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/gnfmkn/adios_spideroak/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/gnfmkn/adios_s...