The cloud platform faces subscription losses as users migrate, amid growing scrutiny of Israel’s wider push to influence tech and social media

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.

goddammit now i have to find another host

What do they do?

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

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

-1 for pcloud. They support unencrypted storage.

So?

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Encrypt it yourself :)

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

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

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are you required to use it unencrypted?

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

Do any of these even do what Vercel does?

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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

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

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

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

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