There are many ways to share files online, the number one is always WeTransfer but if you are looking for a viable alternative as a site to send large files to a person, you can try the Firefox Send online service .
Firefox Send has long been an experimental Mozilla site, now out of its beta phase and made available to everyone, for free.
Firefox Send is a website unrelated to the Firefox browser, which also works on Chrome and other browsers.
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Its main feature, which makes it special and more guaranteed than WeTransfer, is that it can send an end-to-end encrypted file for free, with AES-GCM-128 keys generated on users' PCs, so that Mozilla server managers or any hacker is unable, even if they want to, to know what they are.
Therefore, only the recipient can download, open and view that file.
In addition, you can also set a deadline so that files sent with Send automatically disappear after they are downloaded by the recipient or after a certain period of time even if nobody downloads it.
This ensures that that file is not recovered by other people and will not leave traces even on Mozilla's servers, where it transits in an encrypted way.
To use Firefox Send, for free, you can open the send.firefox.com site, press the key to select the file to be sent.
You can also add multiple files in a single send by pressing the + key.
Before proceeding with the sending on the internet, you must choose the deadline, if it disappears after one or more downloads, with a maximum of 100 downloads.
A download deadline must also be given, which will be possible within an hour, 24 hours or even 7 days .
There is also an option for the 5 minute deadline, to send files so that they are immediately downloaded.
In addition, you can also set a password, so that the file can only be received by those who are authorized to do so knowing the password.
At the end of the upload, a unique link is obtained which is the one to be used to download that file, to be communicated to the recipient.
To download the file, open the link and begin the download by always keeping the Send page window open.
If the person who sent the file has set the deadline after a download, once the file has been downloaded, it disappears forever and trying to open it you will get the warning of the page that no longer exists.
Unlike most ways to share files on the internet, Firefox Send makes sure and ensures that the file has been reached by the person it was intended for and that no one else knows what it is about.
The files that can be sent on the Firefox Send site can be up to 1 GB in size without registration and up to 2.5 GB if you access the site with your Firefox account, which costs absolutely nothing.
As for encryption, most web services such as WeTransfer offer server-only encryption while Firefox Send encrypts files during the transfer process, even on the client side, so that not even Mozilla can see them.
The shared URL for the download, in fact, also contains the encryption key necessary to be able to decrypt the file.
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Firefox Send has long been an experimental Mozilla site, now out of its beta phase and made available to everyone, for free.
Firefox Send is a website unrelated to the Firefox browser, which also works on Chrome and other browsers.
READ ALSO: Send messages or emails that self-destruct
Its main feature, which makes it special and more guaranteed than WeTransfer, is that it can send an end-to-end encrypted file for free, with AES-GCM-128 keys generated on users' PCs, so that Mozilla server managers or any hacker is unable, even if they want to, to know what they are.
Therefore, only the recipient can download, open and view that file.
In addition, you can also set a deadline so that files sent with Send automatically disappear after they are downloaded by the recipient or after a certain period of time even if nobody downloads it.
This ensures that that file is not recovered by other people and will not leave traces even on Mozilla's servers, where it transits in an encrypted way.
To use Firefox Send, for free, you can open the send.firefox.com site, press the key to select the file to be sent.
You can also add multiple files in a single send by pressing the + key.
Before proceeding with the sending on the internet, you must choose the deadline, if it disappears after one or more downloads, with a maximum of 100 downloads.
A download deadline must also be given, which will be possible within an hour, 24 hours or even 7 days .
There is also an option for the 5 minute deadline, to send files so that they are immediately downloaded.
In addition, you can also set a password, so that the file can only be received by those who are authorized to do so knowing the password.
At the end of the upload, a unique link is obtained which is the one to be used to download that file, to be communicated to the recipient.
To download the file, open the link and begin the download by always keeping the Send page window open.
If the person who sent the file has set the deadline after a download, once the file has been downloaded, it disappears forever and trying to open it you will get the warning of the page that no longer exists.
Unlike most ways to share files on the internet, Firefox Send makes sure and ensures that the file has been reached by the person it was intended for and that no one else knows what it is about.
The files that can be sent on the Firefox Send site can be up to 1 GB in size without registration and up to 2.5 GB if you access the site with your Firefox account, which costs absolutely nothing.
As for encryption, most web services such as WeTransfer offer server-only encryption while Firefox Send encrypts files during the transfer process, even on the client side, so that not even Mozilla can see them.
The shared URL for the download, in fact, also contains the encryption key necessary to be able to decrypt the file.
READ ALSO: Sending temporary photos that disappear after seeing them
