ArDrive could be a viable alternative, because it stores data permanently.
$4500 USD for 1 TB
Expensive
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
#332Earlier quoted context omitted.
You'd be amazed that folks even today misunderstand it to be a 'backup' instead of a sync service.
Dropbox calls it a backup service: https://www.dropbox.com/backup
Dropbox Backup is not Dropbox the file sync app. See here: https://www.dropbox.com/backup#dropbox-backup-plan
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#334Earlier quoted context omitted.
always keep a copy outside of your home. my own writing is replicated on almost every device i have. it's the most valuable to me. more so even than photos which are just memories.
Still zero reason to have on the cloud. You can sync the files between your devices, or even better set up your own home server for close to $0. Why do people always forget the 'cloud' is just someone else's computer. Nothing important should ever exist solely on the 'cloud'. I wouldn't even trust a backup copy sent to email, yet I see that constantly as well.
If you keep your files only on your devices and a home server, you are making yourself vulnerable to scenarios like the one discussed here very recently:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31652650 ("I've locked myself out of my digital life")
Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
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#336Dropbox 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…
They technically have fine print that they don't ever give refunds for unused time - https://help.dropbox.com/accounts-billing/cancellations-refu.... When this happened to me I asked the support chat for confirmation in writing so I could file it with a chargeback, and they found a way to refund me without one.
Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
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#338This 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.
This chilling effect is already going on. I'm writing a science-fiction thriller and took most of my notes off Google Drive out of fear that they would misconstrue them as political extremism. If AI is being used for content moderation then this only raises the likelihood that a false positive is identified, devoid of any context, and I lose my entire Google account to an uncontactable bureaucracy. I made a Nextcloud…
Humans can have just as overzealous a response as those robots. In my senior year of high school, I developed a bit of a fascination with historical serial killers and turned in an assignment for AP English exploring the mindset, and my teacher promptly turned it over to the school's counseling service, and I was forced to see a counselor, questioned about violent tendencies, given a 0 on the assignment, and a C in the class. This was the same semester as the Columbine shooting, so I guess schools were on edge about students who might want to kill other students, which I definitely did not want to do, but apparently writing about people who want to do that kind of thing can easily be misconstrued as autobiographical. I almost didn't graduate because of that. Heck, one of my friends was expelled for possessing a switchblade comb because things that looked like weapons were banned. There was no appeal process for these infractions, either.
Honestly, that seems like a feature of many administrative processes, even those administered by government. So far, in the process of trying to become licensed as adoptive parents, my wife and I have been dropped twice now by licensing agencies, without any explanation of why or recourse to appeal the decision. As far as I can tell, the only way to gain the right to appeal a decision is to actually be convicted of a crime.
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>> IMHO, the problem started when we all jumped on Gmail, knowing that there was no support Back when Gmail was invite-only, most people used Hotmail or Yahoo Mail, which would offer a base level of (I think) about 50-100MB of storage at the time. If you wanted more storage; you'd have to pay for your email service - an idea I don't think anyone born past 2000 has even heard of. Gmail came along, and suddenly offers…
IIRC, Hotmail provided 2 MB when Gmail was released. The 1 GB amount was so large by contrast that people thought it was a joke.
That’s if you knew someone who would invite you!
Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
#340Earlier 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.
This whole long thread makes me sad. Not least because I kind of find myself agreeing that tone tags do take something away from the joke. Not to say the commenter is flawed somehow for not getting the context, I didn't either right away.
I dunno, communication is hard I guess :(