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Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by ultramancool »

morganvachon wrote: post #43
ultramancool wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

BitTorrent Sync is not open source or even open protocol and I personally caught them lying about their cryptography by reverse engineering it a bit. Found calls setting up 128 bit AES rather than 256 bit as they claimed in documentation. Posted it on their forum and was told that I was correct and the docs were outdated.

I didn't take my RE any deeper, but trust it at your own risk. I'd recommend SyncThing over it as a good open alternative, though it's admittedly not as polished yet.

Admittedly I am listing several closed tools, but only those I've had good experiences with.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by celticninja »

icebraining wrote: post #37
atemerev wrote: post #28

I support Condoleeza Rice and GOP, but that wasn't enough for me to start using Dropbox — Google Drive is fine for me. Not everybody is left-leaning here.

Not everyone who dislikes Rice is left-leaning neither.

Yeah she is female and black so plenty for the right to hate.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by road42 »

Trufa wrote: post #35

We've switched to owncloud not for Condoleezza Rice in particular but for general privacy concerns, the possibility to self host and pricing issues. We really recommend the product, it may have some disadvantages to dropbox but it's very very usable, evolving and we're very happy about it.

Me too, it feels better :-)

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by morganvachon »

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #27

I stayed on as a customer. I really don't keep magic lists of people that are cool or not-cool. As far as privacy, it remains a concern, but Rice has absolutely zero impact on that, so the whole thing was not germane to my internet activity. What concerns me more about Dropbox is this practice of giving away space -- but only for a limited amount of time. I bought some products and got a huge amount of space, but onl…

What concerns me more about Dropbox is this practice of giving away space -- but only for a limited amount of time. I bought some products and got a huge amount of space, but only for a year or two. Now what the hell am I going to do two years later? Download 100GB over my satellite connection? They've effectively trapped me into doing business with them. That's the kind of thing I find much more objectionable than keeping a roster of who plays on which team in SV.

This is my biggest issue with them, once you get past the privacy issues. I have a 500GB colocated file server that I can use OwnCloud, rsync, btsync, etc. on once my 30GB of "free" Dropbox space runs out. I've already got it all backed up to that server anyway using rsync. Now I just have to figure out which sync method works across all of my devices (GNU/Linux, Windows, Windows Phone, Android, OS X).

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by freshflowers »

atemerev wrote: post #28

I support Condoleeza Rice and GOP, but that wasn't enough for me to start using Dropbox — Google Drive is fine for me. Not everybody is left-leaning here.

You don't need to be left-leaning to consider Rice and the GOP unethical extremists.

Basically, most of the people on this planet that consider themselves conservative wouldn't want to be associated with the US Republican Party.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by icebraining »

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #27

I stayed on as a customer. I really don't keep magic lists of people that are cool or not-cool. As far as privacy, it remains a concern, but Rice has absolutely zero impact on that, so the whole thing was not germane to my internet activity. What concerns me more about Dropbox is this practice of giving away space -- but only for a limited amount of time. I bought some products and got a huge amount of space, but onl…

Didn't you know it was time limited? How did they "trap" you?

Besides, who says you need to transfer to your home? There are ways of doing cloud-to-cloud transfer. The most basic of which is simply getting a cheap VPS with a couple of TBs of storage (mine costs 20€/month) and pull from there.

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