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I understand that you are fine with them looking at your data, but how exactly is it obvious that the primary purpose of a company you are paying to backup your
by kinkrtyavimoodh 9y ago
I understand that you are fine with them looking at your data, but how exactly is it obvious that the primary purpose of a company you are paying to backup your data is to mine that data?
- acdha 9y agoNormal people like to find the things which they store. If they're storing images, 99% of the time there won't be much metadata or text alternatives available — it's the same reason why everyone is investing in image classification and face recognition so you can search for “uncle bob” and find pictures which have them.
- ggg9990 9y agoDropbox has never been sold as "pure backup" like Backblaze, and isn't priced like it (I'm a paying customer of both). I'm not paying Dropbox to backup my data, I'm paying them to sync my data across machines, make it available to me on devices I don't own, make it easy to share with family and friends, etc. I want Dropbox to OCR my documents -- I don't really want Backblaze to (and Backblaze's margins probably don't have any wiggle room for added features).
- barkingcat 9y agoThe primary purpose of dropbox was never "backup". It was always to intelligently store and share data, and to be able to identify information inside of it - like if it's an image, have a gallery. If it's a word doc, have a light weight interface for reading and editing, etc. It was also one of the primary ways to get data out of cell phones because of the "sharing" and "syncing" options. I think you are confusing dropbox for something else? In fact I think dropbox would be a horrible backup solution! Don't use it for backup or you will be disappointed.
- derefr 9y agoRight: Dropbox isn't a safe-deposit box for your data; it's a checking account for your data.
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