Adjacent to the article in the op: What __is__ your recommendation for setting up remote backup for private use? I am thinking of something that can be used to

Adjacent to the article in the op: What __is__ your recommendation for setting up remote backup for private use? I am thinking of something that can be used to sync and / or backup different devices for people of differing tech affinity. I think this question deserves re-examination now, since recommendations likely change due to the facts in the op. As far as I know, it used to be that one should either "roll one's own cloud" (whatever that means for a non-technical user), or simply use the best-integrated tool like Google Drive, DropBox, Apple for the devices at hand and live with the fact that the company will train whatever AI model du jour on your private data. The reason for this binary recommendation was as follows: while services like SpikerOak exist, who say they encrypt your data, the believability of that was never exactly high. Most likely, your data might still get mined. Most likely, the NSA still scans all your docs. However, now you pay extra for "security theater". Instead of paying for such questionable offerings, the decision was rather binary: decide to either go full-hog (if able) and do your own, or just upload it to Google Drive and stop caring about who reads your private documents. But now, if Google starts actively reading, policing and deleting your data without even pretending to give you privacy, I think encrypted services start to have a use case again.