Gosh, if DP wasn't so convenient and worked so well. They've always given off a "not quite right" vibe from the corporate level that I can't quite put my finger on ever since the TC Cribs video [1]. The weird public responses surrounding privacy and security issues since then have kind of reinforced this feeling. [2][3] But it's so convenient and works so well you kind of quickly forget about all the fuss. And even this [4] just sort of blew by like a summer storm.
It goes to show how offering a really good service can make all kinds of principles take a back seat I guess. Let's see how many people offering to boycott DP are still on the service in 3 or 4 months now.
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Gosh, if DP wasn't so convenient and worked so well. They've always given off a "not quite right" vibe from the corporate level that I can't quite put my finger on ever since the TC Cribs video [1]. The weird public responses surrounding privacy and security issues since then have kind of reinforced this feeling. [2][3] But it's so convenient and works so well you kind of quickly forget about all the fuss. And even this [4] just sort of blew by like a summer storm.
It goes to show how offering a really good service can make all kinds of principles take a back seat I guess. Let's see how many people offering to boycott DP are still on the service in 3 or 4 months now.
1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAfIDUTPJJM
2 - http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/01/dropbox-has-become-problem...
3 - http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2011/04/how-dropbox-sacrifices-u...
4 - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/dropbox-clarifies...