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Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
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Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
#62Earlier 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?
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.
Yeah, I'm just not sure why anyone would drop it over that specific appointment. It's already clear that DropBox can read your files for shits and giggles.
If you have privacy concerns, you're going to pick something where that's not possible anyways.
Maybe someone can explain this to me - is it just partisan political crap?
Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
#63Earlier 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?
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.
That makes sense. Added.
Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
#64I dropped Dropbox because I rolled my own
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#65I 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.
My web dev company uses Google Drive for everything and we use FreeBSD exclusively. You can access it all from the Google home page. In Chrome, there's a button on the tool bar.
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#66We'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.
Would you mind elaborating on the disadvantages? Also what are the advantages in terms of pricing, how much less is it costing you?
I'd also be curious how much maintenance, setup, etc., work you estimate is involved.
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#67I dropped Dropbox post-Snowden revelations. I am now a proud user of Tahoe-LAFS[0]. [0] https://leastauthority.com/
Awesome - is there a decent sync client for Tahoe-LAFS though? I'm currently an OwnCloud user but I'd really like to try this option as I have several servers I could use for storage and mirroring, but they'd have to have encrypted storage.
Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
#68It'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.
If any other company, that deals with our personal data, were to appoint a board member well known for being pro warrantless wiretaps, I think people would consider moving as well.
The drop-dropbox.com has its arguments pretty well presented really.
Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
#69I dropped and then signed up again because I needed some way to sync my 1Password data from my laptop to my Android phone (I was previously using iCloud on an iPhone). Annoying, but I sleep fine at night.
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#70I'm dropping Dropbox but haven't had a chance to rescue my data yet.
It's not specifically about the appointment of Rice, but in general the whole collision between my data and foreign (US) politics, given the privacy disclosures in the past few years.
I already have Owncloud set up on my own private server for less money than I pay Dropbox each month and that kind of setup allows me to share files publicly online (and use owncloud to host sites) as well as even an in-browser text editor to alter the files. I can host and edit a website using nothing but Owncloud!