Shame if something we’re to happen to your files.
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.
Next thing you’re gonna get a small section of one of your files in an email.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
