Providing you're actually able to execute the download without having to go through a bunch of hurdles to get there (trying multiple different browsers/configurations and whatnot), which was essentially my point when it came to MEGA - you can't simply wget your way to victory like you can most other places even if you had another device and hand-copied the URL, for instance. (Which is something I've had to do quite a few times lol.)
I was more getting at the fact that interacting with MEGA basically requires you to interact with its horrendous web UI or use megatools on the command line. Posting a torrent link would be a lot easier to share a pirated file as a matter of fact, at least I can use whatever client I damn well want lol and it won't throttle me... The latter of which wasn't obvious to me initially and that basically annoyed me enough to warrant creating this thread.
In regards to the whole piracy thing? Yeah lots of providers host pirated content, but for some reason (and going by people I've spoke to in warez circles, one in particular) MEGA is the most popular followed by either Google Drive or those weird RapidShare/MegaUpload-esque ones that throttle your download speed unless you have a premium account yourself. There's clearly a reason why this is the case tbh, probably where it's hosted and the fact the connection is 'further encrypted' than most of the others, but what does it matter when the government (and several big mostly US-based companies and govt funded organisations) log all your requests in the first place no matter what - unless you happen to be the likes of Dominic Cummings and want to get your eyes tested at Barnard Castle?
"Compatibility with older clients is not an issue, so I don't really see what the fuss is about anyways." I guess this depends on what you're supposed to be serving to audience-wise. An interesting take for a 'general audience' (say, for a small business) could be to redirect requests that aren't taken <=TLS1.2 to a security reminder page or something instead, I don't know - just to essentially help less technically inclined users. This could also be interesting of a way to stop some spam requests from being successful since they'd attempt connecting from older clients (without country blocking too so it would be friendlier in this case). Just a thought I guess.
"I don't have any opinion on this, but a little side note. I own a little intel compute stick with intel Atom and 2gb of ram. I once was downloading 12gb file from mega with chrome and it was just fine. I don't think that it is really that resource heavy, but I could be wrong."
@Jaguarek62 I did something like this in 2016 or so with Firefox and couldn't actually touch the PC for about twenty minutes, I thought it was gonna bloody explode or something - it just literally froze and the fan was spinning so much I... dijsgbsnsdjkkn
"Personally like yandex disk"
@TheSaga Yeah, Yandex overall seems to generally have decent to good 'legacy browser' support - they're the only email account provider I can actually think of who have a lite version that actually fully works on Opera Mini (J2ME) and given I use that myself as well as XP x64... Offtopic but Is it weird I feel like your username would just sound great as a British post-punk / glam-metal rock band name? Thanks for the support on the thread either way