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It's not at all strange to me that Dropbox deployed this dark pattern. What really stood out to me is that, this post was made by the CTO of Amazon. > did I ag
by waynesonfire 3y ago
It's not at all strange to me that Dropbox deployed this dark pattern. What really stood out to me is that, this post was made by the CTO of Amazon.
> did I agree to this somewhere?
The CTO of Amazon uses Dropbox?!
- crop_rotation 3y agoAmazon has no competitive consumer product to dropbox, and he rightfully might want to separate his work and personal data. Can't really expect one to use S3 as a dropbox replacement.
- dylan604 3y agoDoes Dropbox not use S3 as its backend? I would not be shocked to learn that it does
- ishanjain28 3y agoperhaps you should be a little shocked to hear if they are using s3(they are not). s3 is awesome but it's not supposed to be used absolutely everywhere.
- crop_rotation 3y agoWhether dropbox uses S3 or not is irrelevant. Dropbox and equivalents are much higher level products not replaceable with an object store.
- temp_praneshp 3y agoabsolutely not: https://www.infoq.com/articles/dropbox-magic-pocket-exabyte-storage/ https://www.infoq.com/articles/dropbox-magic-pocket-exabyte-...
- waynesonfire 3y agoHe is the CTO. He is in charge of Amazon Drive. He has the authority to implement any missing feature for his use-case.
- crop_rotation 3y agoYes and as the CTO it is better to understand what products make sense for Amazon customers and implement those, instead of what he wants to use personally.