Websites for file transfer without downloading additional software or apps

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Websites for file transfer without downloading additional software or apps - Lemmy.ca

I like Send. It is FOSS and anyone can send host an instance.

gitlab.com/timvisee/send-instances

Tim Visée / send-instances · GitLab

A list of public Send instances. https://github.com/timvisee/send

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I like file.pizza for the off-moments I need to send a file immediately to someone.

Its essentially just a peer-to-peer tunnel so once you close the website it stops transferring the file

Blocked for me 😔. Imagine that’s a barrier for others too then. Must have made it’s way into a blacklist somehow
So pizza is a valid TLD, huh
Not going to mention wetransfer? Been around for many years and always works well. My favorite
Why didn’t torrenting become the go-to file transfer method and a must-have for every computer?
probably because there’s not way to police who connects to your computer in a built in way for novice users. BT just opens up your computer to anyone who wants to connect, to the seed of course.

All four examples requires web browser to download additional software in a form of scripts bundled into the website. And three of them all propietary apps, so it’s better to refure their use.

Don’t really know why they build them this way, browsers can send and recieve files without it via POST and GET methods, why requiering additional JavaScript?

actually you can run p2p and BitTorrent in the browser API now