1y ago

Is... Is this a threat?

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Shame if something we're to happen to your files.
- GET YOUR ASS BACK TO DROPBOX MOTHERFUCKER.
- They already deleted mine and won't answer any emails about it. You leave a project on the back-burner for a while, they introduce a new charging structure, and oopsie, everything is gone.
  Fuck you Dropbox.
- were

The “do you know where your files are?” reminds me of their past security leaks and breaches. 🤔
- Yeah, I mean, what's their point?
  Do you know where your files are?
  Yes, because I store them locally / No, because they are in the cloud
  How's that a selling point for cloud storage?
  
  "Do you know where your files are?"
  Unless you've decided to fuck with them, yeah: Right where I left them.
  Are you saying I should be concerned about your ability to leave my shit alone?
  I don't understand this 'marketing' at all. TBH, I may finally empty my dropbox. Haven't actually uploaded anything in a good 3 years anyway, just random archive storage.
- For the last time, no!

Next thing you're gonna get a small section of one of your files in an email.
- One of your text documents in the form of letters clipped from a magazine or newspaper.
- You want a toe? I can get you a toe.

I get emails from them "There's still space on your Dropbox. You have 6GB of space left"
It feels like they think I just want to upload files for no reason. What's the rush?
- Need to use up all your storage before you feel a need to pay for more.
  
  Google Photos keeps notifying me that I'm running out of space and I've used a whopping 26% of my space!
- Just upload Shrek 5 times.
- Upgrade to our next pricing tier. Do it! Do eet naow!

They’ve been acting desperate lately.
- I wonder what the enshitification track looks like for a cloud data hosting company. I use it because it is convenient, has good coverage (iOS, windows and Linux (kinda)). Not secure, but I treat it like a big post card repository. What are folks using instead?
  
  OneDrive. Not because I love Microsoft. I do not. I just dislike Google more and it's ...the least inconvenient. I switched from Proton mail to Exchange before Proton offered file storage because I wanted a groupware solution. I've considered switching back to Proton but just haven't had time to seriously look into it yet.
  Edit: I just remembered the other hangup. Fucking Excel. It's a monster but it can do things that no other spreadsheet program can do. Every once in a great while I need to use a bunch of VBA code or some obscure function that doesn't exist in Libre Office. Most people aren't going to have this problem though.
  
  Proton Drive
  
  It happened a while ago. They reduced the number of devices you can sync to, removed the ability to gain extra free storage from referrals and always push higher tier upgrades even if you are a paying customer. The last straw was when they redesigned the client to incorporate a ton of things no one asked for unrelated to syncing files.
  
  If you have your own server (or VPS) you can use Seafile. Works well enough to sync your data.
  What's a bit problematic is integrations. For example on Android there are apps that can automatically sync data over Dropbox. Using your own solution doesn't really work there.
  
  Owncloud (self-hosted).

"aTtEnTiOn: YoUr dRoPbOx HaS sToPpEd SyNcInG"
To their credit, I haven't logged in for years and they still haven't deleted my data, despite having every right to do so at this point.
- *obligation

You wouldn’t download a FILE
- What kind of car is that
  
  It's a DeLorean. Quick Marty we need to hit 88mbps!!
- Upload a file you filthy bum

It's certainly coercive, if not an outright threat.

Do you know where your files are motherfucker?
- We have them. Go to Dropbox.

I didn't even know they were still in business

Uhh... are they training AI models on people's files? That's sort of the feeling I'm getting from their "PLEASE UPLOAD YOUR ENTIRE HARD DRIVE" push.
Edit: YUP: https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/product/introducing-AI-powered-tools
- Well, they say they won't use customer data for model training.
  https://www.dropbox.com/ai-principles
  But, it isn't clear whether or not they'd get that consent passively, like "by continuing to use our services" after sending a little email "hey we updated our privacy policy, thought you should know, k thx bye"
- I mean they can train their AI on my entire hard drive if I can upload it for free....

All I can think of is those old PSAs. "It's 8:55 AM. Do you know where your files are?"

mega.nz is way better than a lot of these cloud storage services+ you get 20 GBs for free. They also have achievement programs where you can get more storage for free. For example, installing the MEGA desktop app will give you an additional 5 GB of storage and installing the mobile app and verifying your phone number can give you another 10 GB of storage. That is very generous!
- or host your own with nextcloud or casaos or the like

10-30, we got a hostage situation here.

One stupid notification like these from your app and it's uninstalled and the service cancelled.

Duolingo level harassment

You should probably check your Dropbox...

You know the end part of S.T.A.L.K.E.R where the booming disembodied voice draws you closer? Thats the voice with which I read these notifications.

Why do i think that it's a some kind of poem..

I'd use dropbox again if they allowed public linking to said files. I have no use for online storage otherwise.
- I hadn't realized they removed that feature (well, paywalled it)...
  I've had a free 8gb account for years, but almost never use it. Switched to self-hosting a while ago. VPN+SSH to manage files, then nginx to serve them through my domain.

Sync.com is waaay better than Dropbox. Also, Sync won't lie or bait-and-switch you like Dropbox will. Never, ever trust Dropbox. They suck an entire ass.

All is Dropbox.

Not yet...

2 minutes later, Google cancels Dropbox

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