Lifetime subscriptions can be hit or miss depending on the company. While these lifetime deals are possibly good deals on the surface, it is likely not sustainable in the long run unless the company is bought out by someone with deeper pockets or have some other revenue model that subsidizes the lifetime customers. Reviews are generally horrendous as well. They're very much fly-by-night operations that are very cookie-cutter where they just change the logo, but offer the same thing underneath. I don't buy those 'Zoolz', 'Degoo', or StackSocial deals which are too good to be true and most of them have dreadful user experiences where the app is extremely buggy, slow, or does weird things - or have very limited OS support like iOS only. Any company in for the long haul will need to have a team of programmers and sys admins fixing and maintaining the systems/software/infrastructure - and they don't work for free. There was a response on here that listed out a possible OneDrive deal which could be a potentially great deal if you can catch it on sale. And never did they promise privacy in any of their literature or terms of service. So if you have any racy photos meant for private consumption or anything that shouldn't be viewed by anyone, then pCloud is not the service for you. I understand their need to protect themselves from being sued into oblivion if their customers are hosting illicit files, but don't falsely promise the customer their files are secure when they're not. Even at 'fire sale' prices, it's a bit too much to pay for storage.Īlso, so much for privacy since their sales material says your files are 'encrypted' to ensure 'security', yet they're able to hash your files and find out if you have any content in your files that violate their terms of service since they would have the hash key.

There's also the 2.5% exchange fee added on top as well. Since their offer say nothing about the currency, I decided to look further into and as others have found, the prices are in USD just as I had suspected, which really kills the deal. For what I use it for, it's enough for me just on the free account. I'm with pCloud's free tier for a few years now ever since Dropbox decided to limit their free accounts to 3 devices only.

I love the 'robust' discussion happening on this thread about the idea of a lifetime subscription and whether to trust pCloud.

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