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Do people still use Dropbox? I feel like I almost never hear recommendations for it. I personally abandoned Dropbox when they introduced a limit on the amount of devices you could use for free plans, and the cheapest plan was like 120€/year for 2 TB.
I'll be honest, I don't really see the complaint here. The telemetry goes to telemetry.dropbox.com. You get this telemetry because you have installed the Dropbox desktop app, which means Dropbox already has lots of access to your machine. If this telemetry just went back mixed with normal Dropbox communications (like most apps), would people even be aware of it? There doesn't seem to be any discussion of what the tel…
> I'll be honest, I don't really see the complaint here. There is no explicit consent.
Too bad Dropbox does not see it that way.
Do people still use Dropbox? I feel like I almost never hear recommendations for it. I personally abandoned Dropbox when they introduced a limit on the amount of devices you could use for free plans, and the cheapest plan was like 120€/year for 2 TB.
Do people still use Dropbox? I feel like I almost never hear recommendations for it. I personally abandoned Dropbox when they introduced a limit on the amount of devices you could use for free plans, and the cheapest plan was like 120€/year for 2 TB.
Yep but it's mostly because I have many things which integrate with it -- loads of IFTTT recipes, apps, and sites that automatically sync things for you. If iCloud had a public API that people could integrate with the same way, I'd probably drop Dropbox at some point.
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> I'll be honest, I don't really see the complaint here. There is no explicit consent.
Exactly, as a paying user having the option to disable telemetry is not unreasonable. Too bad Dropbox does not see it that way.
To bad they just start scanning everything in ~/Dropbox.
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> I'll be honest, I don't really see the complaint here. There is no explicit consent.
Exactly, as a paying user having the option to disable telemetry is not unreasonable. Too bad Dropbox does not see it that way.
It's a shame. I wish more engineers would see things through Richard Stallman's eyes, and realize that software is supposed to serve its users, not its creators. But, as the saying goes: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
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> I'll be honest, I don't really see the complaint here. There is no explicit consent.
But dropbox already has huge amounts of information about you, in particular the names, contents, and history of all of your files.
Also consent to store does not imply consent to read, process, make use of.
I confess I have never used it. I still rely on USB sticks for a variety of tasks, more than simply transferring files. Anyway, for me, this telemetry nonsense would be one reason I would avoid Dropbox.
Maybe there will someday be telemetry in USB sticks. We'll see. Meanwhile...
Do people still use Dropbox? I feel like I almost never hear recommendations for it. I personally abandoned Dropbox when they introduced a limit on the amount of devices you could use for free plans, and the cheapest plan was like 120€/year for 2 TB.
iDrive is the only alternative I found that more or less works the same. Maybe Google Drive too but I try to avoid them (maybe if there was an option bundled with Youtube Premium...)
When I tried MS OneDrive messed up the file dates, Amazon CloudDrive did the same (and also got shutdown since). And Apple iCloud is just too barebones and not really meant for sharing if someone is not using a Mac.