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Dropbox is in some serious need of better permissions. * This app will have access to your entire Dropbox. * Please make sure you trust this app before proceeding. There's no way that I'm going to approve of access like that.
Dropbox is in some serious need of better permissions. * This app will have access to your entire Dropbox. * Please make sure you trust this app before proceeding. There's no way that I'm going to approve of access like that.
I like the idea so I'd like to share my thought processes as I used it. Firstly, I had a basic idea of what it probably was having heard about the hack involving file hashes a while back. While it gets permissions for my entire Dropbox I was aware it only interacted with my Public folder. That's fine. After signing up it wasn't obvious what to do next, even with the random link. I searched for a file that's in a fold…
Anyway - there are obviously some pretty gaping holes in messaging and functionality. If I have time in the future I may fix these things up. Again, thanks for the feedback!
You should be explaining your value proposition on the first page. If I had gone just by what I read there I would have assumed that Uberzet was an alternative upload-and-get-public-link UI. For everyone else: it is an index of the public Dropbox files of everyone who is signed up.
It says that NOWHERE. I understand it's a weekend project, but there's absolutely no explanation of what Überzet does on the landing page.
Then there is a link to http://uberzet.com/sharing-more - which goes into more detail on this.
I gave it a try to figure out what it was about (as others say, this should be explained on the main page) Pretty cool idea, but if I remove the app from my Dropbox, will it still have an index of my public folder? It wouldn't be able to index any new items, but I'm guessing the items in there already will remain in your index. Is this correct?
If you email me at the Contact address I'd be happy to manually remove any files you want removed!
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It says that NOWHERE. I understand it's a weekend project, but there's absolutely no explanation of what Überzet does on the landing page.
From the landing Page: "What is Überzet? Überzet a new way to share and discover files. It's built on top of your Dropbox Public folder. " Then there is a link to http://uberzet.com/sharing-more - which goes into more detail on this.
Also when it comes to deciding if I want to share my public folder it would be nice if you could list what's in my public folder for me. I had to go check.
This is really a problem since it wasn't made all that clear to me what I was authorizing in the first place
Public dropbox folders still operate on some security through obscurity. Previously you could access files but only if you had the link. Allowing these items to be indexed removes that security so it should be made extremely clear what's going on.
I've manually removed the app via dropbox.com yet my public dropbox items are still visible and downloadable. This is really a problem since it wasn't made all that clear to me what I was authorizing in the first place Public dropbox folders still operate on some security through obscurity. Previously you could access files but only if you had the link. Allowing these items to be indexed removes that security so it s…
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From the landing Page: "What is Überzet? Überzet a new way to share and discover files. It's built on top of your Dropbox Public folder. " Then there is a link to http://uberzet.com/sharing-more - which goes into more detail on this.
I really agree with chrisdroukas, I had no idea I would be sharing my public folder until after I'd already approved the permissions and poked around. Also when it comes to deciding if I want to share my public folder it would be nice if you could list what's in my public folder for me. I had to go check.