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

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Post by merlinscholz »

pgt wrote: post #10

Hmm. My Dropbox Pro subscription renewal is coming up. Is there an alternative to Dropbox that isn't iCloud or Google Drive? I would like to pay for Tarsnap but I don't understand 250 picodollars / byte-month.

I'm currently using onedrive for business (5$/month for 1tb, exchange and some other office goodies). I can highly recommend it, the privacy probably is not perfect with it being a Microsoft product after all. But the apps are superb and Android/iOS photo upload are a big plus.

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

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Post by cblconfederate »

rad_gruchalski wrote: post #6
godzillabrennus wrote: post #2

DropBox seems to have decided that the only way for them to grow is to turn their data sync platform into a collaborative platform. Makes a whole lot of sense to steal contacts from all your users. FYI - never use oauth to log into anything you care about.

> FYI - never use oauth to log into anything you care about. Interesting remark. I'm not objecting but it's interesting that this goes against what can one read here very often from people who comment on new products, which goes like this: "if you offered oauth sign up, I'd sign up but won't bother with creating an account". Just an observation.

do you mean OpenID? I guess oauth is OK for signups if the tokens were expiring. But usually you naively give the credentials to a new startup, only to find out they abuse them months later.

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

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Post by camhart »

pgt wrote: post #10

Hmm. My Dropbox Pro subscription renewal is coming up. Is there an alternative to Dropbox that isn't iCloud or Google Drive? I would like to pay for Tarsnap but I don't understand 250 picodollars / byte-month.

I like https://tresorit.com. It's end to end encrypted. Doesn't work as smoothly as Dropbox, but worth it IMO.

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

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Post by GreenWatermelon »

pgt wrote: post #10

Hmm. My Dropbox Pro subscription renewal is coming up. Is there an alternative to Dropbox that isn't iCloud or Google Drive? I would like to pay for Tarsnap but I don't understand 250 picodollars / byte-month.

There is still One Drive if we are taking about the big guys.

You could also look into seedboxes.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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

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Post by bayindirh »

godzillabrennus wrote: post #2

DropBox seems to have decided that the only way for them to grow is to turn their data sync platform into a collaborative platform. Makes a whole lot of sense to steal contacts from all your users. FYI - never use oauth to log into anything you care about.

> FYI - never use oauth to log into anything you care about.

Or, "Then create a password and revoke oauth permissions from the provider"

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

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Post by arendtio »

_Donny wrote: post #19
pgt wrote: post #10

Hmm. My Dropbox Pro subscription renewal is coming up. Is there an alternative to Dropbox that isn't iCloud or Google Drive? I would like to pay for Tarsnap but I don't understand 250 picodollars / byte-month.

I am really happy with Nextcloud!

Plus one for Nextcloud, which I use as a self-hosted version for years now.

If you don't like the self-hosting part, there are even offers which make it simple, like the one from Hetzner[1].

But there are also other providers:

https://nextcloud.com/signup/ (click 'Change Providers')

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share

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

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Post by madsbuch »

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.
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