⚠️ Removing Snapdrop.net Support for Security Reasons

[fm-sys]

Today, I discovered that the snapdrop.net website has been unexpectedly acquired by a potentially untrustworthy company. Due to concerns about their security and privacy practices, I plan to remove snapdrop.net support as quickly as possible.

Rest assured, my app will remain available, now exclusively supporting PairDrop.

[fm-sys]

The promised update is now rolling out! 📢

The latest release removes Snapdrop.net support and switches fully to PairDrop to ensure a secure and private experience.

Unfortunately, I have no control over what happened to Snapdrop.net, but I strongly recommend not using it anymore, as files now seem to be uploaded to the cloud instead of staying on the local network.

Thanks for your patience and support! 🙏

[Mitia99]

The latest release removes Snapdrop.net support and switches fully to PairDrop to ensure a secure and private experience.

Maybe it's time to rename the app to Pairdrop as well then. Ty for the update

[ifilipis]

Unfortunately for me, PairDrop is not functional on iOS 13. Self-hosting Snapdrop is still the way to go, seems like

[fm-sys]

Unfortunately for me, PairDrop is not functional on iOS 13.

Have you already opened an issue about that in the PairDrop repository?

Self-hosting Snapdrop is still the way to go, seems like

It will still be possible to use a self-hosted snapdrop with the app. :)

(I'm even thinking about spinning up my own instance. Not sure through, how many resources I would need and how much it would cost in the long run.)

Maybe it's time to rename the app to Pairdrop as well then.

At some places I already changed the name. But the current naming is still quite inconsistent... 😅

[ifilipis]

Have you already opened an issue about that in the PairDrop repository?

schlagmichdoch/PairDrop#358

Seems like PairDrop uses some "newer" JS in places, so it's completely broken in 13.3. I could potentially fix it, but doing so would require deploying it first, in which case I could just deploy SnapDrop

(I'm even thinking about spinning up my own instance. Not sure through, how many resources I would need and how much it would cost in the long run.)

Speaking of which - ChatGPT made me a quite plausible plan of how to deploy it to Firebase and make use of free tiers for Functions. Server side script is like 500 lines of code, so should be quite easy to port. Although I'm hoping that someone will do it before me