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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You responded less than 60 seconds after I wrote my comment, the substance of which is unchanged. Organizing thoughts into words is a process for me, it takes a moment.

Then do the organizing and rewrite befor you submit the comment or include your updated thoughts in a way that marks them as new and leaves the original content. I often add an edit immediately after I post, but unless it is fixing a typo, I always mark the edits.

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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

I use and am happy with Dropbox. I was an early adopter of Google Drive (to try to save costs) and it never really worked right. There were lots of bugs with the syncing of data. My entire digital world is on Dropbox. I use (and pay for) Google Drive too, but I use it differently. It works for me because, in theory, all my data is on every HD in my house (which is really just two). So, I don't lose anything if Dropbo…

I use and am happy with them too—although if Dropbox deletes files from your account, or deletes your account outright, doesn’t that reach out and delete the data from all of the synced devices too, regardless of the number of devices that happen to be local to you?

Do you use a second line of local backups/versioning to protect against that possibility?

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

I still have it because of inertia. I don't even add stuff to it anymore, I just haven't bothered to go through it and make sure everything's copied somewhere else easily-accessible, yet.

I suspect that's the case for a lot of folks. I'm not sure it'd even make the top-5 of such services I'd consider, if I had none of them and were signing up for one today.

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

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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.

The Internet culture fighting DRM and sharing of information is decidedly not the same group of people wishing for algorithmic content moderation

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

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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.

It’s a forced legislation in most places. Flagging is understandable, automatic removal with no way to recover is an awful practice.

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

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Dropbox doesn't have any functioning contact points. I cancelled my yearly subscription a month ago the day after it renewed, they cancelled my premium benefits immediately but never send the $120 refund that the cancellation page said I'd get. Tried contacting them from their website contact page, nothing. Tried tweeting at their support account, nothing. I'm half tempted to try to get my bank to do a chargeback.

It's sad, I used to really like dropbox but now they just suck.

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