Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by motoboi » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 2:26 PM UTC

I dropped Dropbox for Google Drive long time ago.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by ad_hominem » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 2:28 PM UTC

motoboi wrote: post #10

I dropped Dropbox for Google Drive long time ago.

If Google Drive would release a native Linux client, I would as well. They've been promising one is coming soon for years now, though. I should probably just give up.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by thogenhaven » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 2:28 PM UTC

I dropped Dropbox because of too close relation to NSA. Switched to jottacloud. Not quite as good, but at least its in Norway.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by probably_wrong » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 2:29 PM UTC

I switched to Tresorit, which claims to have client-side encryption.

That said, I'm currently installing my own file server at home over a VPN. Once I'm done with that, I shouldn't really need any other third-party solution.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by gherkin » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 2:30 PM UTC

I leave my old data in Dropbox since it's a pain to transfer gigabytes of cloud storage, and I don't have to look for it since I already know where it is. My new data is synced with various things like Owncloud, Cozy, Syncthing, or BitTorrent Sync depending on what the data actually is.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by ultramancool » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 2:30 PM UTC

john2x wrote: post #9

There should have been 2 options for "I continue to use Dropbox despite being against the appointment of Rice" and "I continue to use Dropbox, with no opinion about the Board".

How about one for "I dropped DropBox in favour of an option with client side encryption"?

Wuala, SpiderOak, even GDrive/DropBox + EncFS/Ecryptfs/BoxCryptor. So many better options than DropBox for those of us with privacy concerns.

And for the more DIY people, there's OwnCloud, git-annex assistant (which supports encrypted remotes!), SyncThing and TahoeLAFS. Anyone know of a good sync client for TahoeLAFS though?

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 2:31 PM UTC

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Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by gpvos » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 2:31 PM UTC

I am considering moving to ownCloud, but I'm in no hurry. It's just a few personal files.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by wernercd » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 2:32 PM UTC

ad_hominem wrote: post #12

motoboi wrote: post #10

I dropped Dropbox for Google Drive long time ago.

If Google Drive would release a native Linux client, I would as well. They've been promising one is coming soon for years now, though. I should probably just give up.

dropbox support across EVERYTHING is why I continue to use dropbox for frequent stuff...

I use BTSync for "heavy lifting", since there is no cap on usage (other than bandwidth caps) but it doesn't run on everything.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by mbillie1 » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 2:32 PM UTC

I left Dropbox for Copy solely because of the appointment of Condoleezza Rice.