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Dropbox is also terrible toward people who don't want to use their service, in a way that paying users are conveniently unaware of. Someone shares a folder with

Dropbox is also terrible toward people who don't want to use their service, in a way that paying users are conveniently unaware of. Someone shares a folder with your free account? That counts against your quota. Once it exceeds your quota, Dropbox will yell at you for exceeding your storage limit, when all you ever wanted to do was view files people have shared. Want to keep a folder available offline on your iPad? Better pay up. I appreciate them for being an independent company that is doing its own thing in a gradual way. The internet needs more of those. But it would be miserable if they became a major player with their existing contempt towards end users.

Steven_Vellon 4y ago
This exists because otherwise someone could just create a bunch of alts and share folders with a main account to get infinite storage. If someone just wants to share content, they can share it as a downloadable folder. As in, users can download files or a Zip of the whole folder to their device. That does not count against quota.
mgkimsal 4y ago
This hit me years ago. I had 5 or 6 clients who were all raving about how great and free dropbox was. Each shared files with me, but it put me over my own limit. Each of them were only sharing a few hundred meg, but it put me well over the 1 (or 2?) gig limit, and I had to pay to continue using it to get their files (which was free for them). Left a bad taste in my mouth.