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[Gamers Nexus] "Google is Getting Worse," ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs (youtu.be)

submitted 5 months ago by hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Moved to Protonmail earlier this year, just cancelled my Drive sub and am looking at switching to Mega

[–] Nikki@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

can vouch for mega, been using it for 8 years now with no real issues. only sticking point is file download limits with Firefox, and thats just because im too lazy to download the desktop app

[–] tibi@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I hate services that force you to download an app when the functionality could be provided in browser. Apps have a lot more permissions to access things that wouldn't be accessible in browser.

[–] Nikki@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

from what i see its a browser limitation rather than the site. dyor ofc

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

its cause of the stupid way mega downloads file to your ram, and only when its fully downloaded does it get moved to the drive or something along those lines, its been a while since i've looked into it.

Its megas limitation by intentionally doing shit a stupid way then blaming the browser for it.

[–] Nikki@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

lame, hopefully they fix that some time. otherwise their service is pretty great, and for most downloads that isnt an issue

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Like I said, its intentional. Nothing to fix because its doing exactly what they want. Cause they want you to install the app, which they have much greater control over and ability to harvest from.

[–] Nikki@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

chrome doesnt have this restriction is why i think its not as slimy as that, and why i don't have the app since i just paste the link into chrome lol

sounds more like they designed it around chrome and didnt take firefoxes differences into account, and have yet to fix it because in the grand scheme of things it's a small issue

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

You can use rclone to mount your mega drive like a regular folder. Works like a charm. It's a FLOSS command line utility

[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why did you cancel Drive?

[–] wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago

To be fair I've had no issues, just trying to degoogle slowly