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Re: Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login

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Post by YuccaGloriosa »

laumars wrote: post #114
Philip-J-Fry wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I personally don't mind the ads on Amazon Prime because they're instantly skippable and do actually show things I might be interested in. Plus they don't show random shit like ads for a car or a TV or something. I don't sit and browse Amazon (because the browsing experience on Amazon prime is dogshit), so I go straight to anything I want to watch on there. The only opportunity to discover new shows on there is usuall…

I don’t think I’ve ever received an ad on Prime Video. Is it an American thing? Do they happen in the U.K. too? It might be the case that my DNS server (basically PiHole but something I built before PiHole was a thing) is blocking them. However it doesn’t stop inlined ads from YouTube, 4oD, Twitch and other streaming / on demand services.

I'm in UK, using Fire stick in telly, shows skippable ads.

Re: Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login

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Post by tored »

malka wrote: post #84
tallanvor wrote: post #45

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> FYI - never use oauth to log into anything you care about. I definitely agree with this. While it's true that Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple are probably better at securing accounts than most other companies, there's always the possibility that they can be compromised. Another problem is that if your oauth provider decides to close your account for whatever reason, it may be difficult or impossible to unlin…

My Spotify is broken since I deleted my Facebook. I can't even change the email in my profile.

Contact Spotify support. Had a similar problem where I had a leftover Facebook-Spotify account after delinking that blocked my normal account from changing my email. Spotify support was quick to help me.

Re: Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login

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Post by Ensorceled »

dmd wrote: post #120
grishka wrote: post #63

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Okay, you're probably right. It might be a better option to give an app a sandboxed storage location instead, just so the files it put there remain there because it might expect to find them there later.

... isn't that exactly what access to storage does? Do any (mobile) platforms give access to NON sandboxed storage?

No, sandboxed means restricted to that application. Apps need permissions to access data outside of their sandbox. They are suggesting that there be another sandboxed storage for apps that pretends to be read data.

Re: Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login

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Post by PUFFhPhEHo »

pmlnr wrote: post #47

People are still using dropbox in the age of one-click nextclouds in aws, freenas, digitalocean, etc? Interesting.

For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

Re: Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login

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Post by Causality1 »

Ensorceled wrote: post #18

I left dropbox when they changed the full page upsell to "dropbox business" so that I couldn't easily figure out how to skip it and get on with my work. I had a paid pro account at the time. I actually had a conversation with a product manager; I checked the yes you can contact me when I cancelled my account. They simply refused to admit that an upsell was a advertisement and that disrupting my workflow on my paid, p…

I dropped them when they restricted free accounts to three devices and I suddenly got inundated with calls from annoyed family and friends to whom I'd spent five years evangelizing.

Re: Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login

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Post by ffpip »

madsbuch wrote: post #30

I recently moved away from Dropbox due to its increasing hostility. I am currently evaluating pCloud, though I am not sure they are the one I want to go with: They have some severe problems with consistency across syncs and they allow themselves to push advertisement through their desktop apps ie. they are highly intrusive. I guess I will give them the year I paid for and then move on.

pCloud has terrible security. They don't even use https in all places.

They also don't state what encryption they use. They rolled their own ig.

Re: Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login

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Post by TulliusCicero »

KingOfCoders wrote: post #53
Ensorceled wrote: post #18

I left dropbox when they changed the full page upsell to "dropbox business" so that I couldn't easily figure out how to skip it and get on with my work. I had a paid pro account at the time. I actually had a conversation with a product manager; I checked the yes you can contact me when I cancelled my account. They simply refused to admit that an upsell was a advertisement and that disrupting my workflow on my paid, p…

Same with the ads for Amazon videos on Amazon Prime. They are ads and I don't want ads. But they don't see it that way (don't get me started on the forced watching of texts on Blue Rays).

You also can't change the UI language with Prime Video. I'm an American in Germany, no option to use English.

Re: Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login

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Post by Hizonner »

dmd wrote: post #120
grishka wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okay, you're probably right. It might be a better option to give an app a sandboxed storage location instead, just so the files it put there remain there because it might expect to find them there later.

... isn't that exactly what access to storage does? Do any (mobile) platforms give access to NON sandboxed storage?

All apps get sandboxed storage without even asking. On Android at least, permission for "storage" means permission for an area shared between all apps. And a lot of apps dump stuff into it that you do not necessarily want every other app to have access to.

It's always been that way.

What it really needs is some kind of compartments, so that you can share storage between X and Y, and between Z and W, but not between X and W.

Re: Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login

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Post by kwhitefoot »

DaWe wrote: post #97

Hi, I'm working on a Dropbox alternative where only you own your data. It's still in beta, but files are already stored on the decentralized Sia Skynet network and only you have access because all files are encrypted with your key! https://marstorage.hns.siasky.net/

How does one register?
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