What about people dropping them for their odd pricing (free for 2GB or $10/month for 2000GB? Huh?)
Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
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Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
#42There 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?
What you really want is "I dropped Dropbox for an unrelated reason". The poll is trying to determine whether the call to boycott dropbox due to Condi Rice's appointment actually got anywhere. The OP's suggested answers would make it easier to answer the original question. Your answer, as I see it, would just add noise.
Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
#43There 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?
I don't see BitTorrent Sync in your list of alternatives. I've not used it myself, but I've heard good things about it. I just wonder if it's secure at all, given the open nature of BitTorrent itself.
Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
#44There 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?
Exactly, I dropped Dropbox for Spideroak after the NSA fiasco and have since moved to Owncloud on my own servers. It works perfectly. I honestly think Owncloud has the nicest desktop client around.
Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
#45I dropped Dropbox because of better pricing elsewhere for a commodity service.
Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
#46I dropped Dropbox when I found Bittorrent Sync.
Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
#47I personally started using rsync with my Digital Ocean box, but that's just my alternative.
Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
#48It's pretty absurd that so many people are this willing to attack a woman just because of her political views. This kind of crap is what Fox News uses to claim all liberals are jack-booted fascists just waiting to setup USSR v2.0 here in America.
I agree with your sentiment. However, it wasn't her political views. It was her involvement with a fraudulent war.
Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
#49There 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?
And at the very least "I dropped DropBox for some other reason".
Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
#50I continue to use Dropbox stuff I need to share professionally, but I'm migrating private stuff to alternatives for various reasons, Condi being just one of them.
But thanks for reminding me I need to check if I can downgrade to a free account now.