You’re paying for redundancies in different regions, migrations, backups, upgrades, maintenance, generally not having to worry about losing your data. The storage costs nothing.

That doesn’t address the original point which is whatever’s shared has to exist on all machines.

Either way, you would need to backup your data if you were self hosting Nextcloud or friends so you do need multiple copies of it anyway.

Malware targeting individuals rather than servers do not need privilege escalation. They just need to run as the user and swipe cookies/credentials/wallets etc. Privilege escalation would allow them to do catastrophic damage but that’s not the point in that case.

Browsers allow websites to have persistent storage apart from cookies.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IndexedDB_API

Can you really talk about E2EE on a closed source app? The whole point of E2EE is I don’t trust the vendor. If they give me a blob as a client and tell me it’s E2EE, am I supposed to just trust them all of a sudden?

What about people planning terrorist attacks before they go into Austria? The geniuses did not think about that.

Cool channel, never came across it before. Always good to find high production quality Linux channels.