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by syrrim 1569 days ago
The way mega.nz works is the sharable url contains a decryption key in the hash. The server only sees encrypted data, the client requests that data then decrypts it. This design ensures they have no ability to see user content, while still enabling users to share links on the web.
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They still have the ability to see user content, but it would require them to make a change to their codebase. If they did such a change silently...
just like whatsapp encryption