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Developers drop Vercel, call for boycott after CEO posts selfie with Netanyahu (www.middleeasteye.net)
submitted 2 months ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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Cloud hosting platform Vercel is under fire after its CEO, Guillermo Rauch, shared a photo of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.

The image, which Rauch framed around discussions of AI education and “keeping our free societies ahead”, was immediately read as a political statement given Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Within hours, developers and users across social media declared they were cancelling their Vercel subscriptions, deleting accounts, and migrating projects to competitors like Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, Fly.io, and Render.

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Filen, NextCloud, pCloud, Internext, MEGA, Tresorit, IceDrive , all EU provider, currently using US providers is supporting Israel.

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

+1 for pCloud. I've been using them for years. Really great service.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

-1 for pcloud. They support unencrypted storage.

[–] lsjw96kxs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Encrypt it yourself :)

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago

You just killed a whistleblower (due to human error).

Better to avoid that and only use services that can't accidentally take files unencrypted

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

are you required to use it unencrypted?

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl -1 points 2 months ago

No. But you are not required to use it encrypted. That's the problem.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Most of those provide unencrypted cloud storage. There's only a few you'd want to use

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wrong, all provide encrypted no knowledge storage, Internext even with Quantum encryption. Privacy protection is mandatory in the EU to be able to operate.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What I said was that they provide unencrypted storage. It's possible, for example, to store something unencrypted on PCloud. It's not possible to do that on Mega.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know, well AFAIK Filen in its free version (10GB) isn't encrypted, but why do you want an unencrypted storage?

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 2 months ago

I'm saying we should avoid providers that offer unencrypted storage, like pcloud, filen, etc.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do any of these even do what Vercel does?

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Visit the homepages and look which features they have, normally similar in all cloud services. But for sure they don't have friendly meetings with Netanyahu

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They all appear to be cloud storage. Vercel is a platform to host applications.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Also not a problem, there are also a lot of EU hosting services

https://www.techradar.com/best/eu-web-hosting