Your second point is why paying for such services makes a real difference.
Companies like storj.io, backblaze, or any other cloud storage/backup provider provide a service for a fee with (not really) clear usage rules. If you're encrypting your stuff before it goes to the cloud, you're pretty safe from scanning, and if you have a contract for a given space and bandwidth, the worst you'll probably run into is overage fees.
"No longer"?
You just now realize this?
After (ugh) 30 years of having PCs and many, many, drives, Seagate has been the worst.
But I've had WD fail too. Just not as much, and I've had far more WD drives. I currently have about 20 drives of varying ages, 98% of them are WD, because more of the Seagate drives have failed and been trashed.
My only issue with Grayjay (both Android and Windows app), is you have to manually export the videos out of Grayjay
If you try to grab the files directly, they don't work.
The negativity is about like saying I should not exist.
It's your choice to see it that way.
Lol, you're a riot.
You can't even see your own hypocrisy.
No one so far has said any meaningful reason why this has a place or should exist.
So now you're the arbiter of a communities existence?
Talk about psychosis, with a little narcissism on the side.
7-8" high, so weighing what, 1.5 Oz?
Seeing the camouflage is amazing.
99% of the time, unless there's something I'm convinced I can only get there and I really need it.
Syncthing
Windows - Synctrayzor
Linux - Syncthing
Android - Syncthing-Fork
iOS - Möbius
To tack on to this, with an example that is easier to grasp - I have my own cloud, comprised of machines at my house, my friends, and family.
Those machines provide backup storage for each other, over the internet (using an encrypted connection).
If I were to charge people for storage, I'd be little different than any other cloud storage provider (at the most basic level).