I don't want to click off a "DropBox can help you save word documents" every time I open Word. Instead I get all kinds of "look at how much I can help you" crap when I don't want it. I liked having a small unintrusive storage module, but that is no longer offered. My problem is not that they charge, but that the service is consistently getting worse. I suppose it can go on for as long as the investors keep piling in. We've all been benefiting from 'free' stuff funded by investors for the last 20 years. That's where the money is - and when you go public, you are all about the "quarterly goals." You don't go public without knowing that Wall Street owns you. I don't blame Dropbox going the way they have - they are less about the individual customers and more focused on teams and corporations. For nearly a decade, I stayed loyal to the service, but like Prokopov, I too felt the bloat was getting too much.
Their revenues and userbase grew at an astonishing speed. The company was one of the fastest-growing companies in Silicon Valley, because of customers appreciated their simplicity and ease of use. It was nothing like anything I had experienced before. When I fell in love with Dropbox, it had not even launched. His sentiments reflect my feelings about Dropbox, as well. And if you are just signing up, add another five steps. Like me, he too had thought that "in the beginning, Dropbox was great, but in the last few years, they started to bloat up." He visually shows that as an existing customer, you need to jump through a dozen hoops to get Dropbox going on a new machine. It's also critical to change passwords periodically in case a situation similar to the 2012 Dropbox hack happens again, for example.Veteran journalist Om Malik, writing on his blog: I was reading Nikita Prokopov's blog this morning and came across his very visual damnation of what is wrong with Dropbox. Important: Make sure your passwords are complex and difficult to uncode, and create different passwords for different services to prevent a large security breach from happening. This eliminates the risk of Dropbox itself accessing your files with the company's own encryption key or handing your information to government authorities. You can encrypt and password-protect documents created in Microsoft Office, for example, or with a third-party app. Simple human error is also a risk - Dropbox allows users to store files in easily exposed public folders, for example, so it's important to be careful about where files are placed.Īnd for the ultimate in security, both from accidental public folder disclosures as well as hacks, security experts like 's Chief Editor Gabe Turner suggest using file-level encryption on important files stored on Dropbox. Two-factor authentication is an easy step you can take to ensure Dropbox remains secure.
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