Dropbox is a Virus
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- Dropbox used to be good, but I would never use it in 2024. .
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well, that was supposed to be impossible with every dropbox apparently being uniquely encrypted...
seems they dropped the ball as well as the box
lol yeah, I remember uploading an official Windows ISO to my dropbox and it completing in like 5 seconds... They dedupe everything and cross pollinate the data. I didn't touch on this, but I would never trust them with sensitive data.
Was that even a thing? I remember even when it was new they talked about not trusting them with PID. Unless it was added later. But then again, back then even YT said to not use your real name online. :-P
Never expected Dropbox to go on the decline
Anyone else notice how everything seems to be declining, fast, all at once? I think it's over.
Inflation is the real issued
if everything is made for profit, it will inevitably degrade for users
@@inevespaceNot exactly
At the core, it depends on who is running it and whether or not he or she has any moral sense.
@@motoryzen The wider issue is trying to squeeze blood out of a stone. The only way you can do that is degrade the service in a myriad of ways. Corpos think they have an infinite money glitch where they can keep milking something forever while trying to reduce the cost of maintaining the thing to zero. VMware and RedHat/IBM are going to be some interesting stories.
There are a lot of good things happening right now as well, but that doesn't get those sweet sweet clicks. Whenever I start feeling down and thinking the world is going to hell... I just go for a walk and remind myself of all the good around me. Be careful of the doom scroll and social media as it can be a self fulfilling prophecy.
Never used Dropbox, but I like MEGA.
The original version of Dropbox used to place the synced folder in the roaming part of the user profile by default.
But on domain-joined workplace computers this could result in those files being stored elsewhere on the network rather than local to the PC.
This is initially not noticeable for small files and small projects and convenient for the user if they logged into different computers. But could cause problems if the Dropbox folder got too large (either in file sizes or number of files and folders) and could slow down subsequent logins.
For those that needed it for collaborating with an official project partner I would relocate the folder to the local drive but remind them it would only be accessible from their primary PC.
I'd still have to remind them that if they joined multiple projects they could easily exceed their free Dropbox storage quota even if each of their remote contacts was within their own allowance, and warn them against dropping the contents of a whole CD of photos in there and expecting it pan out well.
We used to install the agent on windows servers and share the agent's dropbox folder out from there to the LAN, mirroring the access permissions set in dropbox to windows.
Hacking a registry entry that stored the folder path to the dropbox root folder could change it however that used to get overwritten by agent upgrades that would trigger automatically where application patch management policies were not in force.
We'd have to set the server to auto login and then lock itself after running the agent or set it to run as a service but by doing so would forego access to the agent's gui on the server console. When the server was a VM running on a bare-metal hypervisor such as XCP-ng or VmWare esxi the autologin was not much of a security concern to the MSP company directors.
However I never felt comfortable running it this way or using synology agents to mirror data between offices.
There was always the risk some idiot installed a local copy and let it disable and would then update the old copy instead of the network shared copy while everyone else was modifying the network shared copies, creating a version control cluster f----#.
It is at best, a messy solution for medium to large scale operations.
With the risk of data leakage and government fines/penalties associated with it, I foresee software design being pushed to migrate the storage of documents away from filesystems to within secured cloud applications and portals attached to the record entries within the databases.
We're already seeing available software solutions to identify, report and secure sensitive data on filesystems across networks.
If you don't hold the private keys, it's not safe nor secure.
SMB/NFS shares over VPN to my house. No need to complicate anything.
So true. They let their own brand decay.
Chris: Free space for referring people? Let's friggin' GOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Dropbox: "I am altering the deal, pray I don't alter it any further."
I dumped Dropbox a very long time ago. In fact I think George W was still in office lol.
seadrive self hosted... been working ok for me.
Hey chris, how is mega? Especially since all the client side tools are open source and they offer tight encryption.
Brendon O'Connell reckons Mega regularly got into his cloud storage and deleted stuff, to the point of clearing the whole thing out. Just so you know.
why cant you use syncthing instead ?
who says you can't?
I like Sync and/or Proton Drive
Backblaze are getting greedy too.
In what way? Monthly cost increase? If you check places such as the data hoarders subreddit, you'll see why. Backblaze's big selling point is not having to worry about how much you backup (unless you go the B2 route). Their entire premise is set it and forget it. They're only able to afford to do that because all the people who don't back up much offset the few who backup a lot. The problem is those who backup a lot are backing up a TON, ie. entire media servers. I'm hesitant to call these people 'abusers' because the point you go from user to abuser is the limit and the amount of storage that should be advertised instead of 'unlimited' but Backblaze needs to pay for it somehow to keep the set it and forget it premise.
I hate onedrive with a passion, mainly because of the UI.
Virus. Been gone from here. Now it's my cloud, my rules. I will not use storage I don't own. Never liked even the idea of "the cloud".
Sounds like Evernote's changes
What cloud service is good for backup instead of Dropbox? Need at least 1TB.
Backblaze
They should have accepted Steve Jobs offer.
Did he make them an offer they can't refuse?
@@Mario583a Jobs wanted to buy the company. In making a 9 figure purchase offer for Dropbox, Steve Jobs told the founders that their company was a “feature" not a product.” The Dropbox founders walked away from the purchase because they were interested in building a company.
I created private Telegram channels for storing photos and videos. No more GB limitations.
I'm going to be using GNU/Linux OS pretty soon, and my current cloud storage service desktop application program only works with Windows, so I'll have to find a new cloud storage service. Could someone recommend to me a decent cloud storage service (personal, single individual, sharing-with-no-one usage) that works with GNU/Linux? Thanks. :)
amazon S3 or glacier with sync thing + rsync.
Mega works great with all platforms.
Yep, mega and soon to be supported proton.
I know some that work with Linux, but never heard of GNU/Linux OS. If that's a Linux distro, Mega would probably work.
Isn't dropbox now down to like 2gb or less for free, still have an account with nothing in it since day one
I kind tired of Dropbox making it seem like you had to create an account. It was kind of annoying and it turned me off.
Nineties buzz-words. Everybody should extend to leverage existing synergies to fully web enable significant success factors, on the cloud. You should all practice thin client computing, and the stuff on your own HDD or USB stick, can't possibly be as secure as the stuff Micro$oft stores for you on the cloud.
Now where are we, 25~ish years later? What have we learned about all that management bullshit?
Oh wait, you're running Windsows not Linux and now you're in muddle management, and your degree was in Sociology not computing anyway ... You didn't learn any-fkn-thing!
You still think Quantum Computing is the next big thing.
They learn sociology so the corporations they work for can benefit from the skills they learn to effectively manipulate the behavior of the people they manage.
Quite frankly I wouldn't trust any sensitive data on Microsoft infrastructure.
If you are not paying but only costing it money, you are not a user...
You are sometimes weirdly naive. Dropbox is shit, but not because you couldnt use 60GB storage for free for all
What about MEGA? What is your opinion on MEGA? I still have my old OG 50 GB free account.
i also have 50 GB storage i think i make it around 2015 now they give only 20gb of free storage but still is privacy good in my opinion best storage cloud it uses end to end encryption
Kim Dotcom is an awesome guy, still only the second coolest Kim on the planet, but definitely in top .001 percentage of dudes out there
@@bvd_vlvd I used to like him and stand by him on the whole Megaupload raid BS but the dude himself has become quite the conspiracy nutjob in the last few years. Even that aside, he has a sorted past of hyping up his big projects, claiming they're world changing, and then abandoning them immediately after launch, ie. Baboom.
@@I-use-Archbtw What I find odd about MEGA is the achievements given are just temporary storage increases for new accounts only.
tommy_p03 If you are watching this.
I got 1tb from school to and that is from high school and uni but never used it. What happens when you graduate?