This is very exciting news for the Bitwarden team, if only beacuse Firefox Send went away and there's not really been a suitable replacement since. There was onetimesecret, but I never really trusted it...
However, FF Send was shut down because keeping up with nefarious users uploading illegal content was a full-time job in and of itself... I wonder what Bitwarden will be doing to solve the problem.
I've seen your site's link in this conversation at least a couple of times, and am curious as to how you manage the costs of running the service. Is it not as well known that the costs are quite low or the cost doesn't matter to you because of your chosen provider? Since Firefox Send was shutdown due to abuse related issues, what are your thoughts on offering this alternative for free (more so with a 10GB limit, which is much higher than what the Firefox Send limit was)?
Cool, yeah maybe you've seen me linking it before as well.
I pay for it myself, with the help of some awesome donators. It isn't too expensive to run, mostly because files have a maximum life time of a week. You might wonder, what is the catch? If it ever becomes to expensive for me personally, I'll take it down (disabling uploads, and taking the whole instance down a week later). But it should be fine for a while!
You're right. Mozilla's Send instance was abused. My instance doesn't have a big name such as 'Mozilla' or 'Firefox' attached, which probably makes it a lot harder to convince unknowing people to download random files uploaded on it. I haven't seen any real abuse yet.
About the 10GB upload limit. I try to balance it with usage and cost. I've set it to 1GB, 2GB and 5GB before. I'll keep it at 10GB now, but might change it if storage becomes an issue.
Why would these services have to care about illegal data? The data is end-to-end encrypted, they don't know what is being sent. There is no reason to even store it on their servers.
If the service is being used to distribute malware, then they do need to care. It causes reputation issues, could get the site added to block lists, and may carry legal liability. This is why Firefox Send was shut down.
It gave you a link to be shared, that essentially embedded the cryptographic key to decrypt. It's basically the same scheme that e.g. mega.nz uses too (their "share link" feature), and similar encrypted services.
These links weren't just shared one-on-one in some private channels, but people posted the links in (semi-)public places as well. If it was something actually bad or at least "bad", a lot of times other users, law enforcement, or copyright owners would report these links back to mozilla, requesting the link be disabled and the content taken down.
However, FF Send was shut down because keeping up with nefarious users uploading illegal content was a full-time job in and of itself... I wonder what Bitwarden will be doing to solve the problem.