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Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation

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Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation

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One thing that helps me think about which cloud services to use is the phrase "a stranger's house."

If I'm working on something important to me... how comfortable am I leaving it in a stranger's house? If I wouldn't be comfortable doing it, I always make a local backup. This saved my ass when I inexplicably lost access to an old Google Drive account. I lost a couple days of work, rather than a couple months. I still have no idea why that account was disabled.

Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation

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Are people still using dropbox? I thought other integrated service such as google drive and onedrive would have drove dropbox to the grave

Been using them steadily for over a decade. Their core service is still great, at least for personal use.

Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation

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There are 0 details here. Does anyone know what the secret TOS violation is supposed to be?

"Secret" means that the supposed account violation wasn't specified in the message from Dropbox. Possibly an automated decision. And apparently it was without warning on the first offense? Definitely need more info. And extremely worrying for me as a customer that they will take down the whole account for a single toc violation.
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