servufon wrote:a lot of us have troubles with the Mega plugin, which is not an issue with other sites which don't require a plugin
Personally, I haven't REALLY had much trouble with Mega, but if other people are reporting problems then I will have to defer to their experience.
My worst Mega experience has been that it won't stop saying I should install the plug-in. I arrive, am told to install it, therefore I DO install the plug-in and then try to operate by means of having that plug-in installed, but Mega keeps telling me I really ought to install the plug-in (again?). Generally this looks like to me like it's a problem with cookies -- as I interpret it, the message is popping up because a lingering Mega cookie suggests to the Mega website that, according to its scan, I am running a computer and / or a browser withOUT the plug-in installed; unfortunately, Mega doesn't actually have the sense to re-scan to see whether or not I have installed it, and instead just goes with the results of its first scan regardless of any subsequent actions taken by me. My solution has been to wipe cookies or restart the browser after installing the plug-in. Not difficult. A bit annoying, of course, and it does indeed imply that Mega is not really working the way it ought to. Nevertheless, I would have to say, this degree of difficulty is quite minimal relative to a lot of other internet shenanigans that I involve myself in. I believe the "problem" is likely to have been rooted in the fact that I am hyper-sensitive about internet-security and plug-in type installations IN THE FIRST PLACE. Because of my hyper-sensitivity, I probably have set some (otherwise rather intelligent) settings which are not standard or default to the usual internet user, settings which are of higher security, and which therefore confuse Mega's presumptions about how my computer or browser would most likely operate. So, I'm more secure than the norm; hence, Mega (wrongly) thinks I'm not interacting with Mega properly. You ought to see other problems I get: for example, what the Empornium system does to my torrent downloads when I don't squelch its disk-reading capacities properly! I am always working around the porn-people who have already created a work-around. It's fun; but annoying; but probably necessary if you want to be efficient when you peddle or just download porn.
I would suggest, to all the people having trouble with one or the other, that others of us have trouble with the other one or the other. I like Mega; you like public torrents; somebody else likes private (f.e. Empornium) torrents. Best solution is to provide at least one of all of the above.
On a related note, at this stage in time, the WORLD is going to bigger and wider and more open file-storage of a new type, again. Check out the free premium space that you get from a couple of the Chinese servers (their versions of Google). I think Baidu is presently giving a TERABYTE of free cloud storage if you can figure out how to sign up for it in Mandarin. And the other main Chinese outfit (can't recall the name) had a TEN-TERABYTE premium for a while, and seems to me to be allowing two-terabyte clouds as their norm if you get a full membership, which may or may not be possible from a Western IP? not sure ... but ... there are WORK-AROUNDS. :) I got all this info from (the English version of) Wikipedia. Have fun!