Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

Dropbox is morally corrupt and support for them by HN users is disappointing.<p>I wrote to Dropbox and said I wanted to cancel my account and get a pro-rated refund because of their hiring of Condoleezza Rice. Her involvement in the Iraq war and the mass surveillance of Americans is deplorable.<p>A few days after my request my account was converted to the free version, with the limitations of the free version. I could no longer sync any files. When I saw this I assumed I was going to get the refund.<p>Days passed. I asked about the refund. The support email included disturbingly fawning about Ms. Rice and how amazing she was, and insisted that the Dropbox ToS made it flat-out <i>impossible</i> for them to issue any refunds. My account was changed back to allow the 100 GB of storage and Dropbox acted like it never botched my request.<p>It almost funny that they would not even respect differing opinion on their hiring of Ms. Rice and graciously offer a refund to those offended by such a move. Hiding behind their own ToS just shows how deaf they are to the matter. They basically don&#x27;t give a fuck, and they don&#x27;t have to because they have enough people who are more concerned with convenience than principles as amply shown on HN.<p>There are very good alternatives to Dropbox. Both SpiderOak and ownCloud work great on Windows, OSX, and Linux. You can get managed ownCloud hosting if you don&#x27;t want to set up your own: <a href="https://owner.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;owner.io</a>.<p>It&#x27;s puzzling that anyone would trust them with their data given their behavior.

Is there a reason the old thread was killed and this up in its place?<p>I thought the sales page contained better information than the blog post.<p>That aside, I feel this needs to be brought up in every Dropbox thread:<p>Get rid of Condoleezza Rice and I&#x27;ll happily use your product.

Ditch Condi Rice and apologize for allowing her in, and I&#x27;ll consider using Dropbox again.<p>As it stands, there are an abundance of other companies doing the same thing as Dropbox which do not associate with known war criminals. This makes them more desirable business partners.

I switched to Copy since the Condoleeza Rice situation and I have had no problems whatsoever. I have the app running on a macbook pro, an imac and two android mobile devices. It&#x27;s also about half the price that Dropbox charges. I recommend it.

&quot;You now have 1,045.GB ..&quot; Quite good news! I now just need a way to exclude some files (.aux .tmp) and will be set!

It is disappointing that Dropbox still does not offer any options for secure storage. Personally, you might be fine with unencrypted stories but at least for companies in Europe, having (all) your data with an American cloud provider without local encryption on your side is simply not a legal option …<p>Dropbox is a great service, however, it would be even greater if I could use Dropbox for all my data and not only selected data where I do not consider local encryption necessary.<p>(I know about add-on software like Boxcryptor but all options I have tested so far were not user-friendly enough … Dropbox competitors with encryption like Spideroak and Wuala work good enough but are in no way as user-friendly and convenient as Dropbox.)

I&#x27;ve been waiting on this for a long time. Now Dropbox might actually be a viable, affordable off-site backup solution.

A comment on the site points it out already but they charge European users more now (€9.99 which is $13.17 currently). Is there an external reason?<p>Does that include VAT? Did they get a datacentre somewhere in the EU?

Dropbox having good Linux support is a big reason I use them personally and professionally (both paid).<p>But geez do they mess other things up. For example you can only share top level folders. We have to share with various outside parties and that limitation leads to a very cluttered file structure.<p>The solution for multiple accounts is beyond annoying. The correct way of doing it how google does it - you provide however many sets of credentials and can then easily select the current set to use&#x2F;view. Dropbox do this idiotic thing where you tie your personal one into a business one, then logging into the latter also logs you into the former and everything works as though it is one account, with enforced folder names. I&#x27;m sure there is some weak justification about how this prevents issues with free accounts, but making paying users have a horrible time isn&#x27;t the way to achieve that.

More granular permissioning, and an increase in space to 1TB. Not bad.

The biggest benefit of Dropbox is the mobile app client support. On iOS, you see Dropbox and iCloud support, but rarely anything else.<p>When other sync services like Box and friends get more integration, I’ll gladly switch away since I would love some sort of encryption, which Dropbox, and Evernote damn you, appear unable or unwilling to implement.

All that matters: Does Dropbox encrypt my data on the client side, before storing it on the server?<p>Or does Dropbox have the power to pilfer through my data, along with official snoopers and hackers?

I do not have a need of 1TB of space, just 100GB would do. It would be great if they provided a tier of 100GB plan (just like Google Drive)

I wish OS vendors weren&#x27;t asleep at the wheel. This sort of service needs to be integrated into the OS. I&#x27;m sick of having an OS that doesn&#x27;t include next-generation features like seamless p2p filesharing. I guess its time to make one ..

EncFS over Dropbox works best for me: <a href="http://ninjatips.com/encrypt-dropbox-using-encfs/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ninjatips.com&#x2F;encrypt-dropbox-using-encfs&#x2F;</a>

It is unclear whether the packrat add-on for unlimited versioning is still available for Dropbox Pro.

So I have the $20&#x2F;month a plan, and my reward appears to be that I pay twice as much and still have 200GB...? Do I have to cancel and re-subscribe? Anyone from Dropbox out there..???

<a href="http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Dropbox-slash-its-price-99-yr-for-1TB-Aug-2014" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Why-did-Dropbox-slash-its-price-99-yr-f...</a>

Whoever downvoted my previous comment, can you explain to me why you care about Dropbox Pro?

Was privacy ever a feature? Will it ever become a Dropbox feature or is it impossible due to either today&#x27;s political climate or Dropbox&#x27;s internal views on the matter?

A quick reminder of the practices of Dr. Rice, member of Dropbox&#x27;s Board of directors: <a href="http://drop-dropbox.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;drop-dropbox.com</a>.

I feel like I missed out on something major reading these comments.<p>What have I missed in the last 6 months concerning db and Condoleezza Rice?

lol who cares?

I&#x27;ve got something I like better than Dropbox. It&#x27;s called rdiff.<p>It does one thing only: deduplication.<p>All the other stuff needed for remote, incremental backups, e.g., moving files back and forth over a network, can be done with other open source tools. I think I have a pretty good command of moving files around with open source software... I do not need a third party to help me via an obfuscated blob of Python and who knows what else.<p>I like having control over my backups versus trusting it all to some closed-source, third party, &quot;all-in-one&quot; application.<p>In my mind having control and transparency will always be more powerful than handing over my data deduplication and backup to a third party, such as &quot;Dropbox&quot;.<p>But I imagine there are few others who would agree. Forgive me for not loving Dropbox. Maybe some day I will see the light.