Does anyone know why the file for 0.11.1 in gofile weighs more than in mega? 18.6GB in gofile and 17.35GB in mega, we're talking about a 1.3GB difference. Is mega a bit more compressed or what?
I'm not sure, but probably because one considers 1GB = 10^9 bytes, while the other considers 1GB = 2^30 bytes.
When I was in high school, in the '80s, there was no confusion at all: multiples for bytes where defined multiplying N times by 1024 (2^10) and not by 1000 (10^3) like for all the others unit of measures.
We were positive: 1 km = 1000 m, 1 kg = 1000 g, etc, BUT 1 kB = 1024 kB.
Then the fucking HDD vendors started selling the first 4 or 16 GB drives with a small asterisks saying "1GB = 1,000,000,000 Bytes".
It all started as a commercial questionable advertising, and per the power of money led to the redefinition of 1GB as indeed 10^9 Bytes, while for the "traditional gigabyte" they invented the "GiB" abbreviation (with a fucking lowercase i following the G, or M for mega, T for tera, etc).
So youngsters nowadays say 1GB = 10^9 Bytes, 1GiB = 2^30 Bytes.