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Re: Dropbox exposes personal details of viewers of publicly shared Paper documents

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Post by 52-6F-62 »

y4mi wrote: post #32
abtinf wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Keybase. I really wish they would get their act together and let me pay them for the service.

They're really looking like they've got laser focus on file sync with their crypto wallet support and random crap coin giveaways

I've used Keybase for file sync/backup—though not extensively.

In spite of all of those other points, I've found the sync does work pretty seamlessly if you just need 1:1 sync and limited special features. That suits me well enough.

Re: Dropbox exposes personal details of viewers of publicly shared Paper documents

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Post by thunderbong »

plg wrote: post #22

Man alive, all I want is a folder that syncs. That's all. I understand that Dropbox is a business and blah blah blah ... so what are my alternatives if I literally only want: - a folder that syncs on my devices - the ability to share a folder with others - cross-platform

I'll also vouch for syncthing. It's the best file sharing application. It works cross platform, has windows, linux, android and mac clients.

I can choose to share specific folders for each device. I have one set up on a DO droplet and seamlessly syncs across all my devices.

Also, when two devices are on the same LAN, it discovers the devices automatically.

Couldn't praise it enough!

https://syncthing.net/

Re: Dropbox exposes personal details of viewers of publicly shared Paper documents

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Post by jimbo366 »

jasonsync wrote: post #33
plg wrote: post #22

Man alive, all I want is a folder that syncs. That's all. I understand that Dropbox is a business and blah blah blah ... so what are my alternatives if I literally only want: - a folder that syncs on my devices - the ability to share a folder with others - cross-platform

https://www.Sync.com (full disclosure, I work there).

Does it support differential sync? It's the only reason why I'm still using Dropbox.

Re: Dropbox exposes personal details of viewers of publicly shared Paper documents

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Post by svnpenn »

plg wrote: post #22

Man alive, all I want is a folder that syncs. That's all. I understand that Dropbox is a business and blah blah blah ... so what are my alternatives if I literally only want: - a folder that syncs on my devices - the ability to share a folder with others - cross-platform

I B2 with Rclone:

https://rclone.org/b2

Re: Dropbox exposes personal details of viewers of publicly shared Paper documents

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Post by 52-6F-62 »

josteink wrote: post #37
52-6F-62 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does any viable open-source option exist that could be self-hosted?

Nextcloud. Has windows, Linux and iOS clients. Also integrates with Files on iOS, and has camera-upload which works better than Dropbox. Best switch I ever made.

Thanks. I just tried the demo, but it's not working in Firefox 69.0 at all. It loads, but nothing works.

https://imgur.com/a/w8cyFWf

Re: Dropbox exposes personal details of viewers of publicly shared Paper documents

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Post by siproprio »

This should be great for finding active email addresses for spamming people.

For example, there are a lot of hits for

  https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22https%3A%2F%2Fpaper.dropbox.com%2Fdoc%2F%22
And of course, by Guido van Rossum himself, there are quite a lot of emails here:

  view-source:https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Yet-another-guided-tour-of-CPython--Alg6nzJCcNoY3S~SyY_T~KzuAg-XY7KgFGn88zMNivGJ4Jzv

Re: Dropbox exposes personal details of viewers of publicly shared Paper documents

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Post by sbr464 »

It definitely seems unnecessary to share the info to all users, especially full contact info.

Airtable has a somewhat worse issue, any file you upload is publicly available without login, as long as you have the attachment URL. There isn’t any way to protect file assets, even though the underlying worksheet is private and requires a login.

Re: Dropbox exposes personal details of viewers of publicly shared Paper documents

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Post by jasonsync »

jimbo366 wrote: post #43
jasonsync wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.Sync.com (full disclosure, I work there).

Does it support differential sync? It's the only reason why I'm still using Dropbox.

The Sync apps provide end-to-end encryption, so the entire file is uploaded when it changes. Agreed differential sync can be a good thing, especially with super large files that change often.

Re: Dropbox exposes personal details of viewers of publicly shared Paper documents

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Post by martin_a »

kop316 wrote: post #40
martin_a wrote: post #24

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Maybe something like a self-hosted NextCloud/OwnCloud? Although integration into the operating systems is not as good as with Dropbox, I completely switched to a self-hosted NextCloud and everything works fine without bloat.

+1 on the Nextcloud. It hosts files great and completely replaced Dropbox. It also hosts my Contacts, Calendar, and with Collabra, it is a complete Google Docs replacement too. Like someone else said further down, it also does automatic picture uploads too.

Ah, good to hear that. I still have to look into that to decouple more from Google. Do you have any good resources for more information on how to move contacts and calendar? Or did this work right from the start for you?
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