No, Dropbox is not stealing your files

Posted by _razvan on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @01:42PM
from the medium.com dept.

https://medium.com/@razvanh/no-dropbox-is-not-stealing-your-files-24ecd443b5ac

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Re:No, Dropbox is not stealing your files by jinushaun on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @12:12AM (#9142799)

Thank you. Goes to show that even technical people can misunderstand how tech works and assumes the worst. We definitely live in a post-Snowden world.

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Re:No, Dropbox is not stealing your files by karmakaze on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @06:04PM (#9141409)

The conclusion should be that it's poor UI/UX design. If it has nothing to say about a file, because it's not under it's management, then it shouldn't have added any visual indicator green or blue.

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Re:No, Dropbox is not stealing your files by _razvan on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @06:44PM (#9141605)

That's exactly how it works. For files which are not part of the Dropbox folder it adds no visual indicator.

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Re:No, Dropbox is not stealing your files by jinushaun on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @12:10AM (#9142794)

Have you even used Dropbox before? Or TortoiseGit? Doesn't sound like it.

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Re:No, Dropbox is not stealing your files by boduh on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @02:03PM (#9139814)

Nice analysis.

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