Talk:Mega (service)

MEGA Web browser add-on made mandatory

It looks like some of the recent things have not been updated yet in the article. For one, the add-on (called "plugin" in the article) now exists for both Firefox and Chrome. Second, you MUST use it if you want to download files to your local storage which are larger than 1 GB. Trying without, even on your free account, will result in a message in Transfers pane "File too big to be reliably downloaded" and the download will be terminated immediately. While I think that this is a typical PR thing and it would work perfectly without the add-on, this is the current as-is situation. Can't help it. -leecher- 2.242.39.171 (talk) 01:39, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

This blows my mind. Just now I was trying to repair the passenger seat of my wife's car and was looking for an online manual that would identify the twelve wires to it. Mega offered me a manual that was just a hair over 1 GB (which for a car manual is obviously totally ridiculous) and because it was over 1 GB they said that I'd have to use their service to do so. In order to do so I have to agree to open up the security of my computer to Mega, which naturally I refused to do. Unfortunately this was after I'd paid them for the manual. They've ripped me off! This is obviously criminal.

These crooks are clearly brilliant. If the NZ police manage to out-maneuver them, my hats off to them! Vaughan Pratt (talk) 06:32, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

I don't know if the site was updated or what but I've been using the site for a couple of months and you don't need to install anything to download 1+ GB files. Did you make sure you're clicking the Download through browser option (not the Download through MEGAsync one)? 173.49.202.189 (talk) 01:36, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Downloading problems happen when you click "Download through browser", with or without the browser plugin installed (for chromium based or mozilla based browsers). A message appears telling you that the "available browser storage for MEGA cannot handle this download size, please free up some disk space." Even if you happen to have around 100 GB of free local storage and you want to download a file of 1 or 2 gb in size, which is not that big considering we live in 2016, not 1996, and a lot of people have fast broadband access to the internet.

This "HTML5 offline storage space" problem continues to nag you, I myself did not find any option (in firefox's about:config - don't know of a chromium equivalent for this) to set a certain amount of space, and a directory you could give for those downloads. Seems HTML5 offline storage is the culprit, or the lack of flexibility to handle said, based on user interaction as I described. But installing the MEGA sync client to circumvent that embarrasing situation is laughable in my opinion. Should this be mentioned, maybe with a link to a solution (if there is any that works), just in case? 88.151.75.106 (talk) 20:19, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

More than 245 countries?

At best, even taking into account countries whose sovereignty is disputed, there are fewer than 220 countries on Earth, as per this list. How can MEGA claim to have members in over 245 countries if this is the case? Shouldn't this be removed?

Blaziken (T-C) 08:09, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

Source code available

Mega also makes source code available for the sync service on Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows, as well as the code of their other plugins: https://mega.nz/#sourcecode

The sync client source is here: https://github.com/meganz/MEGAsync — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lagerspe (talk • contribs) 13:40, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Is it 15 or 50GB?

The first paragraph says it's 50GB; but in the Data Allowance section it says 15GB. Aside from information for my own account while logged in, I haven't found any information about the current storage quota for free accounts yet; my free account has had 50GB for a lot of time though, a lot more than the Data Allowance section says it should though. --TiagoTiago (talk) 17:24, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Service is down in Brazil (September/2019)

Due to a court decision [1], Mega is down in Brazil, althought is possible the access via Chrome extension [2] Caiaffa (talk) 18:08, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Suggested Updates to the MEGA Wikipedia page

Full disclosure - I work on the PR team for MEGA in New Zealand. The page doesn't appear to have been updated since 2016 and I would like to recommend some edits that would bring the page up to 2020 (and beyond).

Please excuse me if any of my requests are poorly formatted. I am new to editing/suggesting edits for Wikipedia.

Firstly, I would like to suggest some additions to the summary field. This could follow what is currently featured:

·Information to be added or removed:

The business grew rapidly in subsequent years, reporting that the number of registered users increased from 35 million people uploading 12 billion files in January 2016 to over 180 million people, uploading more than 78 billion files in August 2020.

Recognising its controversial background, MEGA says it is investing heavily in compliance under the guidance of its global legal advisers MEGA has taken legal action to ensure that its users can access their securely encrypted private file storage

·Explanation of issue:

Update with more recent detail. User figures were out of date.

·References supporting change:

As above, in a list: https://mega.nz/blog_36 http://business.scoop.co.nz/2020/07/14/mega-appoints-david-mclaughlin-as-compliance-manager https://mega.nz/about/main https://mega.nz/blog/brazil-appeal-court-rules-in-favour-of-mega

Pursuitauckland (talk) 03:48, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Now, I would like to add some content to the History.

·Information to be added or removed:

By August 2020, registered users had grown to over 180 million, uploading more than 78 billion files.

·Explanation of issue:

History currently only goes up to 2016

·References supporting change:

http://business.scoop.co.nz/2020/07/14/mega-appoints-david-mclaughlin-as-compliance-manager

Pursuitauckland (talk) 03:48, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Next, for the Data Encryption section.

·Information to be added or removed:

MEGA added two factor authentication in October 2018

MEGA provides a Takedown Guidance for content owners and users . By 2019 MEGA had published five transparency reports annually, containing statistics on takedown requests, subscriber information disclosure and related issues.

·Explanation of issue:

Bring up to date

·References supporting change:

https://proprivacy.com/cloud/review/mega#privacy https://mega.nz/blog_2018_10 https://mega.nz/takedown https://mega.nz/blog/transparency-report-2019 Pursuitauckland (talk) 03:48, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

·Information to be added or removed:

REMOVE

Limitations

According to Mega, the site "works with all major current browsers", but there can be some inconveniences to using browsers other than Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. For example, with Internet Explorer 10, as it has a "memory leak in the Blob saving functionality, the user has to close and reopen the Mega tab every couple of hundred megabytes[47] of inbound file transfer".[48] There is currently no option for sharing among a group of users.

·Explanation of issue: Internet Explorer 10 is an outdated web browser.