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Overview

4shared has a rating of 2.15 stars from 20 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. 4shared ranks 114th among Online Storage sites.

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Top Positive Review

“Although I would love for a site like this to allow...”

Tina R.
9/22/10

Although I would love for a site like this to allow all the premium features for free, I can be happy with less. I do wish we could have some sort of system on this site for scanning the download before it comes to me. I also like their clean look, and simple feel. Most other sites that are comparable usually jam up space with ads for their profit.

Top Critical Review

“Avoid it. Zero stars if I could”

Steele D.
3/7/17

I recently got an email stating they were deleting my account because I hadn't signed in in 180 days. There is a reason for that. I won't be logging in for 180 YEARS. A random woman claimed my own photograph was hers in a photo folder I had of family events. No one else in the picture, the company took her side and suspended me, thank goodness I was not banned and when my suspension was up I removed EVERYTHING as this was the 2nd time. WAYYY back in 07 I kept getting these harassing messages from a woman in Britain AGAIN stating some of my digital artwork I had to do for a professional project was hers, company took her side that time as well even though I had proof from my boss so I got a warning and I finally had to block that woman. No thanks There are too many other places. I never have had these weird problems anywhere in many years of needing online storage. Everyone who actually shares music is either banned or suspended.

Reviews (20)

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Thumbnail of user steeled
3 reviews
40 helpful votes
March 7th, 2017

I recently got an email stating they were deleting my account because I hadn't signed in in 180 days. There is a reason for that. I won't be logging in for 180 YEARS. A random woman claimed my own photograph was hers in a photo folder I had of family events. No one else in the picture, the company took her side and suspended me, thank goodness I was not banned and when my suspension was up I removed EVERYTHING as this was the 2nd time. WAYYY back in 07 I kept getting these harassing messages from a woman in Britain AGAIN stating some of my digital artwork I had to do for a professional project was hers, company took her side that time as well even though I had proof from my boss so I got a warning and I finally had to block that woman. No thanks There are too many other places. I never have had these weird problems anywhere in many years of needing online storage. Everyone who actually shares music is either banned or suspended.

Thumbnail of user sams131
21 reviews
92 helpful votes
February 16th, 2014

This site has VERY slow downloads. Plus, you have to sign up to download, which I think its useless. Also, there are lots of ads containing the word "Download Now," so you don't know what to click.

Thumbnail of user johne146
0 reviews
4 helpful votes
July 12th, 2016

Avoid this site at all costs. What a waste! Every other click brings a new page pop up. I don't have time. Used to be a great site. Avoid... Avoid... Avoid!

Thumbnail of user jelloj
1 review
6 helpful votes
April 10th, 2013
Thumbnail of user arturoa4
0 reviews
3 helpful votes
January 10th, 2016

Every single time I try to download something or just see something... I get a "installer" or everything except what I was seeking for!

Thumbnail of user billp62
0 reviews
4 helpful votes
December 7th, 2015

This site has nil quality control. IRC networks are being attacked from this site with non stop drones spamming and I think 4shared is directly responsible for this non stop mass advertising because the spam always says www.4shared.com Dalnet is being spammed right now directed to all Asian channels.

Thumbnail of user raquele
0 reviews
6 helpful votes
July 6th, 2011

Great website, found everything I wanted even without the premium features!

Thumbnail of user anthonyd40
18 reviews
50 helpful votes
February 5th, 2015

They're ok, but some of their files have a bunch of viruses.

Thumbnail of user armenb
85 reviews
395 helpful votes
September 11th, 2010

Free site for file uplaoad and download. I was able to find data not available even on scribd.com and is for free for now.

Thumbnail of user tonyr19
1 review
5 helpful votes
May 15th, 2013

Excellent website for file sharing. It has 3 problems: One, there is no auto suggestion box or spelling correction... So any error in spelling will give no results for your search. Second; if you search in any language other than English, you find no results; but stupid enough, Google can find your search inside 4shared if it is available, but 4shared search box does not find it... that means 4shared website developers are not competent or simply morons. Last problem is the control panel confusing and no clear way to to ur account settings. Sometimes people can have full access to your uploads which can reflect a profile of your interests. Somehow it looks like a loophole threatening user privacy.

Thumbnail of user robertr100
0 reviews
5 helpful votes
January 8th, 2015

Terrible website. False files and viruses.

Thumbnail of user tinar2
42 reviews
167 helpful votes
September 22nd, 2010

Although I would love for a site like this to allow all the premium features for free, I can be happy with less. I do wish we could have some sort of system on this site for scanning the download before it comes to me.

I also like their clean look, and simple feel. Most other sites that are comparable usually jam up space with ads for their profit.

Thumbnail of user davids361
0 reviews
5 helpful votes
August 20th, 2015

I had my account deleted a few years ago for doing what other people on here do and that is sharing music!

4shared are a joke of a website/company!

Thumbnail of user davisonhs
8 reviews
18 helpful votes
January 18th, 2013

This is a good website for uploading videos for sharing purpose. I see one major difficulty, all videos are not available on this channel.

Thumbnail of user bobb528
0 reviews
4 helpful votes
September 9th, 2013

Having issues with the stupid desktop they make you download in order to not get any errors that your image is too large. The desktop can't be used on multiple computers like you can with FILEZILLA. The desktop on my one computer i keep having to uninstall and reinstall. Forget contacting their support for help because it takes 5 days for you to get anything back from them. Worst site!

Thumbnail of user mariak17
0 reviews
6 helpful votes
January 7th, 2014

Useless for downloading free books. Scam.

Thumbnail of user mopeg
0 reviews
10 helpful votes
March 19th, 2014

Read the privacy policy. It practically tells you that they are giving away your information and that they have access to your devices. The only thing that they really say anything about is that they wont use your device information to track you and your device. ALWAYS read the fineprint.

Thumbnail of user alaq
0 reviews
2 helpful votes
July 7th, 2013

They have fake books. You will sign up and download the book and finally get nothing but a damn virus

Thumbnail of user jl34
0 reviews
5 helpful votes
February 8th, 2013

I've used this program for backup of my business docs. Specifically there are three issues that make this program almost useless. First, it randomly & liberally renames your files. If you have hyperlinks, it just wipes them out. You'll be renaming files everyday, if you can find them. Second, It duplicates your files. I have had files duplicated up to 75 times. This duplicating made my 9 gigs of word and excel documents into 17 gigs. Then, while trying to find each douplicated doc among thousands of docs and hundreds of folders, 4 sinc hammers your computer with over the limit warnings. Third, while its busy renaming your files and duplicating entire folders, it takes up so much processor and bandwidth it shuts you down until you shut it off. If you want to use this for a back up... Don't. Find a program that works. I didn't even mention the incessent pop ups that come fast and heavy when the program crashes.

Thumbnail of user lynetteb
0 reviews
6 helpful votes
August 9th, 2012

I've used this website for years as a place to store back-ups for my music (one of the two main purposes of the website - storage and sharing). I loved it, and would go there often. Now with all the political interest in the internet and privacy on the internet (as in, some people believe internet users shouldn't have any) 4shared seems to be cracking under pressure. I've recieved two notices of copyright infringement even though I haven't done anything wrong. When I stated this to them, and my frustration over the issue, they basically told me to delete my account or face legal action -- even though I was using 4shared for storage, which they themselves claim is one of their purposes, and not for piracy. Be wary of this website.

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