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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.
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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!
Fun fact, if you use the PixelExperience custom ROM, you get free unlimited photo storage in original quality because Google thinks you’re actually using a Pixel phone.
No guarantees they won’t delete your account if they figure out. But it worked for me until I finally got another phone.
I have an old Samsung Fold. I looked up if Custom ROMs were installable a few years ago and while it was possible, it killed 1-2 of the cameras(!), so I’m not venturing that route any time soon 😅
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.
When spreadsheeting software doesn’t have a feature you need, I feel the most logical next step is to write a program in a simple language like python to do it. (there is a reason data scientists like it so much)
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.
Proton Drive
Nextcloud and Syncthing
Owncloud (self-hosted).
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.
Yes. Digital Ocean was suggested by a colleague. When I looked it up it just took too much work for all the platforms I use. I’m happy to see all the suggestions I’m getting tho.
I personally rent a small VPS (At https://www.netcup.eu/, German hoster) with Ubuntu server and use Mailcow (as Docker container) with it.
Setting this up was relatively quick (2-3 hours maybe?), but you really need to know what you’re doing. Like getting started with the container is easy, but you also have to set up DNS for your server, reverse DNS and several things for your email server to look legit (DKIM, certificates, spf DNS entry, …).
After the setup it runs well, though there are still things you’ll have to be careful about. Like making sure that your certificate (usually LetsEncrypt, it’s free) gets switched out regularly in the container (with a post-certificate-renewal hook usually).
Overall, quite a headache if you don’t like to mess around with things.
And even worse if you fully rely on that mail server for important things. I still don’t use my own one for work, banking, taxes and so on, just too risky.
“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
It’s certainly coercive, if not an outright threat.
Do you know where your files are motherfucker?
We have them. Go to Dropbox.
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
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…
10-30, we got a hostage situation here.
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
One stupid notification like these from your app and it’s uninstalled and the service cancelled.
