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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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Post by voisin »

turtledove wrote: post #15
Hitton wrote: post #5

This wouldn't happen with SFTP, CVS and a $5 VPS.

What you've described is not at all an equivalent for Dropbox. There are many, many features that your stack doesn't support.

I think OP is being sarcastic, referring to a comment on the original Show HN for Dropbox.

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

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Post by dangrossman »

taesu wrote: post #4

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

700 million people use them, and 17 million are on a paid plan. I still use Dropbox, because I don't trust that I'd be able to reach a helpful human at Google should anything happen to my Google account.

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

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Post by shkkmo »

Msw242 wrote: post #19
turtledove wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What you've described is not at all an equivalent for Dropbox. There are many, many features that your stack doesn't support.

How valuable are those features after Dropbox deletes all of your data and deactivates your account?

Why can't your VPS provider do the same thing?

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

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Post by prepend »

jpalomaki wrote: post #13
Hitton wrote: post #5

This wouldn't happen with SFTP, CVS and a $5 VPS.

Assuming the $5 VPS provider has proper backup and recovery procedures in place.

For $5 they definitely should.

Also assuming the sun doesn’t end in a sudden heat death event.

Also assuming that my fingers aren’t removed in a thresher accident.

And assuming the provider has electricity.

Etc etc etc, it’s important to vet that services I pay for have SLAs and are competent.

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

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Post by blueflow »

turtledove wrote: post #15
Hitton wrote: post #5

This wouldn't happen with SFTP, CVS and a $5 VPS.

What you've described is not at all an equivalent for Dropbox. There are many, many features that your stack doesn't support.

Like "getting deleted for circumstances you cannot control?". This is so much of an anti-feature that SFTP suddenly looks like an attractive option.

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

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Post by psyc »

voisin wrote: post #21
turtledove wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What you've described is not at all an equivalent for Dropbox. There are many, many features that your stack doesn't support.

I think OP is being sarcastic, referring to a comment on the original Show HN for Dropbox.

That’s how I took it as well.

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

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Post by turtledove »

voisin wrote: post #21
turtledove wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What you've described is not at all an equivalent for Dropbox. There are many, many features that your stack doesn't support.

I think OP is being sarcastic, referring to a comment on the original Show HN for Dropbox.

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