{"id":299120,"date":"2019-03-13T08:48:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T06:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=299120"},"modified":"2019-03-13T08:50:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T06:50:34","slug":"firefox-send-self-destructing-file-sharing-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/299120-firefox-send-self-destructing-file-sharing-service.html","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Send &#8211; Self-destructing file sharing service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla has <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/12\/introducing-firefox-send-providing-free-file-transfers-while-keeping-your-personal-information-private\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a> that Firefox Send &#8211; its encrypted file-sharing platform &#8211; has exited its beta stage and is now available to all users.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/send.firefox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Firefox Send<\/strong><\/a> allows users to share files from any browser, using end-to-end encryption to secure the data.<\/p>\n<p>The platform also allows users to set an expiry time for when the file link they created expires, as well as selecting how many users can download the files.<\/p>\n<p>Users can also set a password which others will be required to enter before downloading the shared files through the Firefox Send service.<\/p>\n<p>Send allows users to share files of up to 1GB, and users will need to sign up for a Firefox account to send up to 2.5GB through the platform.<\/p>\n<p>This platform was <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/223106-mozilla-launches-firefox-send.html' target=\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>first announced<\/strong><\/a> as a Test Pilot experiment in 2017. Mozilla said that Send will also be available as an Android app in beta later this week.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eRHpEn2eHJA\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/299094-youtube-premium-launched-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">YouTube Premium launched in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla announced that Firefox Send has officially exited its beta stage and is now available to all users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":197481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[57982,981,975,57980],"class_list":["post-299120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-encrypted-file-sharing","tag-firefox","tag-mozilla","tag-send"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299130,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299120\/revisions\/299130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}