Ah yes the age old problem

If you’re looking for a privacy respecting paid service that’s not just a file locker for pirates I have two recommendations: At a previous workplace, we used LiquidFiles. More catered for commercial uses.

Personally I’ve been using Bitwarden Send. Requires a paid account ($10/year) and limited to 500MB files.

For sharing with your friends you might look into Magic Wormhole. In my case I just put the file on a personal web site, usually.

https://wormhole.app/

E2EE and simple

Not anonymous or free but bitwarden send is nice. Thundermail from Mozilla will have this feature too.

some PDF with a friend

i would probably just email it

share a PDF or a file with an anonymous lemmy user

onionShare?

protonDrive :/

Self hosted Project Send: https://www.projectsend.org/ in a Docker environment.

people here seem to like https://catbox.moe/

You can use https://www.swisstransfer.com/ from infomaniak, it’s privacy respecting, or https://lufi.ethibox.fr/

I usually use croc, though it requires the receiving party to be around to receive it immediately.

Personally I’m quite big fan of self-hosting, but if you want less a hassle, def try some of the other suggestions.

Since you’re interested in anon file sharing, I’d really recommend you take some time to really think out just what your personal definition of anonymous is, and how well it fits in modern digital infrastructure. True anonymous activity is nearly impossible, you can be fingerprinted by even writing a file to a drive to hand to someone. Every action taken online has some trace to it, while IP is generally not precise information, with enough data overlap you can be reasonably guessed depending on how much effort someone is willing to put into it.

So you know, good luck finding a balance lol.

Signal or Proton Drive