They already deleted mine and won't answer any emails about it. You leave a project on the back-burner for a while, they introduce a new charging structure, and oopsie, everything is gone.
Unless you've decided to fuck with them, yeah: Right where I left them.
Are you saying I should be concerned about your ability to leave my shit alone?
I don't understand this 'marketing' at all. TBH, I may finally empty my dropbox. Haven't actually uploaded anything in a good 3 years anyway, just random archive storage.
I wonder what the enshitification track looks like for a cloud data hosting company. I use it because it is convenient, has good coverage (iOS, windows and Linux (kinda)). Not secure, but I treat it like a big post card repository. What are folks using instead?
OneDrive. Not because I love Microsoft. I do not. I just dislike Google more and it's ...the least inconvenient.
I switched from Proton mail to Exchange before Proton offered file storage because I wanted a groupware solution. I've considered switching back to Proton but just haven't had time to seriously look into it yet.
Edit: I just remembered the other hangup. Fucking Excel. It's a monster but it can do things that no other spreadsheet program can do. Every once in a great while I need to use a bunch of VBA code or some obscure function that doesn't exist in Libre Office.
Most people aren't going to have this problem though.
It happened a while ago. They reduced the number of devices you can sync to, removed the ability to gain extra free storage from referrals and always push higher tier upgrades even if you are a paying customer. The last straw was when they redesigned the client to incorporate a ton of things no one asked for unrelated to syncing files.
If you have your own server (or VPS) you can use Seafile. Works well enough to sync your data.
What's a bit problematic is integrations. For example on Android there are apps that can automatically sync data over Dropbox. Using your own solution doesn't really work there.
But, it isn't clear whether or not they'd get that consent passively, like "by continuing to use our services" after sending a little email "hey we updated our privacy policy, thought you should know, k thx bye"
mega.nz is way better than a lot of these cloud storage services+ you get 20 GBs for free. They also have achievement programs where you can get more storage for free. For example, installing the MEGA desktop app will give you an additional 5 GB of storage and installing the mobile app and verifying your phone number can give you another 10 GB of storage. That is very generous!
Sync.com is waaay better than Dropbox. Also, Sync won't lie or bait-and-switch you like Dropbox will. Never, ever trust Dropbox. They suck an entire ass.
I hadn't realized they removed that feature (well, paywalled it)...
I've had a free 8gb account for years, but almost never use it. Switched to self-hosting a while ago. VPN+SSH to manage files, then nginx to serve them through my domain.