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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 wubbert »

jherskovic wrote: post #81

I use ResilioSync (formerly Bittorrent Sync) for my personal Dropbox-like stuff. The iOS client is sparse but functional, and it has clients for pretty much every OS I need, including arm Debian... so I have my 'not-quite-Dropbox' home on a Raspberry Pi. We also use it to cross-backup photo libraries with an avid photographer friend who lives across town. It works very, very well.

I use Syncthing, which is similar to ResilioSync. Syncthing doesn't have as many features as ResilioSync, but its completely free and open source.

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

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mindcrime wrote: post #112
TameAntelope wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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What evidence is there that "everybody" else did "get it"? And what does that even have to do with what I just said? Choosing to communicate poorly is a bad decision, even if some people happen - by chance - to understand you correctly in spite of that bad decision.

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

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Post by rkagerer »

IceWreck wrote: post #32
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.

Seriously, SFTP + Syncthing + Filebrowser completely replaces Dropbox for me. Name one feature thats not present in this stack.

Can you right-click a large file (in your day-to-day file manager), hit Copy Link, and email the link to someone so they can download it (without having to give them any further credentials)?

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

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Post by 323 »

mensetmanusman wrote: post #129

Sounds like an opportunity for a new company that abstracts away the actual different cloud providers, provides redundancy, and provides a security abstraction layer that prevents cloud hosts from knowing what their segments of files are for.

Then it will be that company which deletes your files because you broke their ToS :)

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

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Post by turtledove »

bayindirh wrote: post #100
turtledove wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are those features of sftp? It cvs? Or the vps provider? Or are you saying, "well, with a completely different stack I can get closer to feature parity"?

You can get the whole package from Hetzner pre-configured, or just configure it yourself. I manage our team's nextcloud installation, and installing on bare-metal (sans containers) is a half day job at most . Moreover Nextcloud supports WebDav which allows tools like Zotero to directly tap into that.

Would you say that the install and maintenance load for both systems (Dropbox vs packages containers) is the same?

Like, I'm confident my tech illiterate parents could get drop box running. Ease of use and UX are features.

I'm not saying the self hosted stack is bad, and in fact it's probably better in many ways. But it doesn't have the same feature set if you consider usability a feature, imo.

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

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Post by eatsyourtacos »

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

Onedrive can't handle a ton of files without just breaking.. at least not up until a few years ago at best.

We have ~1 million files in our dropbox that we use for business. Lots of files change each day. And everything just works. It uses some CPU, but honestly for what it's doing it's not too bad. At least dropbox can handle it, other type of file syncing apps just stop working.

So for small-medium business I'm not sure what the alternative is to dropbox if you are file-system heavy unless it's just for throwing some random files here and there.

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

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Post by dekhn »

prepend wrote: post #26
jpalomaki wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

you left out the meteor-data-center-strike problem. Most $5 VPS don't do realtime snapshotting to an out-of-region data center with live failover.

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

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Post by alex_smart »

xalava wrote: post #115
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

It's the only cloud service that works on all platforms and not trying to promote their own file formats

I think Mega also works on all platforms, but yes, amongst the major competitors (OneDrive and Google Drive), Dropbox is clearly the best.

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

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Post by bil7 »

bjt2n3904 wrote: post #123
UweSchmidt wrote: post #49

This is an inevitable consequence from the push to make cloud companies responsible for the content they host. Analyzing all of it can only be automated; automation will deliver weird false positives.

Amazing that the Internet culture that vehemently opposed DRM and created things like bit torrent so quickly lined up behind algorithmic content moderation.

fans of bittorrent and fans of services with auto content moderation share at least one common factor: they are free to use. Many people are not motivated much further than keeping their hard earned cash.
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