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Just wondering, but how doe these clients exist? Wouldn't DD send a cease and desist or simple modify their API to disable it? Or are the leaning on how ppl don
by itake 5y ago
Just wondering, but how doe these clients exist? Wouldn't DD send a cease and desist or simple modify their API to disable it? Or are the leaning on how ppl don't want to update clients so DropBox actually can't make breaking API changes?
- lelandfe 5y agoIf this is just using API endpoints I can’t see the justification for a cease & desist Although lack of justification has not impeded nastygrams in the past
- quesera 5y agoWhy would Dropbox want to shut this down? They publish an API, and they encourage developers to integrate with their API. Dropbox isn't pushing ads at users, so it's not like Twitter or YouTube where unofficial clients are a threat to their business model. Very much the opposite, I think.
- stingraycharles 5y agoThere are all kinds of reasons why an org would want to shut down third party clients like these; perhaps they feel like they could be held liable if the clients misbehave / delete all files, or feel like they want more control over the “Dropbox experience”. Remember, Twitter at one time was also pushing people to integrate into their ecosystem, but then decided to kill third party clients. In my case I’m super happy with maestral, as the vanilla Dropbox client doesn’t support my filesystem.
- kiririn 5y agoThe official client has a limit of 3 machines for free users. I would have probably converted to paid, or another service, if not for unofficial clients (on mobile where smart sync is irrelevant) allowing me to stay under the limit
- usefulcat 5y agoThey push “ads” to get you to pay for more storage.
- teaearlgraycold 5y agoIf you need more storage then you're have to pay for it regardless of your client. I doubt they get much money from people seeing upgrade CTAs and paying for stuff they don't need.
- rad_gruchalski 5y agoThey push adds regardless if you need more storage or not. They constantly nag to do other upgrades too. It's annoying. Every time I work with Dropbox, especially their web version, I've to be careful what I click on.
- nyanpasu64 5y agoIf so, I'd very much prefer Dropbox stop shilling me with undisablable upgrade notices when you're getting near full, on their official client and website.
- teaearlgraycold 5y agoTo be fair - that sounds like a reasonable conversion opportunity. I use like 100MB out of 2GB on a free plan so they'll never get my money.
- nvr219 5y agoWhat got me to convert was limiting the # of devices I could sync, not any storage limits.
- zekrioca 5y agoI’m a very annoying way, like “URGENT: Your storage Blah Blah Blha…”