Dropbox removed ability to opt your files out of AI training::undefined

  • nameisnotimportant@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    11 months ago

    If someone has a way to poison their AI training by adding junk along my regular files I’m interested. Sadly I use it at work and I cannot decide to migrate to another cloud so I better sabotage them

  • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
    31·
    11 months ago

    I HATE Dropbox.

    I tried to use them recently and their service had some problems.

    They have an option to “stream” files when you need them. The only problem is you need an internet connection to access them. I did not trust this kind of system and I actually need to access my files even without internet.

    So there is a way to make the files available offline. Great! Problem solves. NOPE! They offer an option to have your files available offline, but they might remove the files and make them only available in the cloud if you local storage gets low.

    That is really all they say about it and there is no option to turn this off. I was uncomfortable about their vagueness and my inability to disable this.

    Within 24 hours of paying for their service I learned of this and they refused to refund my purchase.

    PLEASE NEVER WORK WITH DROPBOX

    • andxz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      I’ve used Dropbox since literally their first year of creation and I’ve never experienced a single one of these issues. I use it mostly as a portable library and all I need is 2 mins of any WiFi connection to download any book(s) I want to read to a local device. Mind you this is on their free plan, so I’ve never paid a cent to them either. Requires me to periodically transfer older books to another long term solution, but that is just a few mouse clicks. I’ve read hundreds if not more ebooks this way. Since I prefer .mobi (which I can even read IN dropbox if I want) I can upload straight to dropbox after converting from .epub.

      I mean, it sounds frustrating, but your experience with them sounds extremely weird to me.

      At least to me they’ve been the best cloud provider by far, for what it’s worth.

      With that said, I don’t especially like that they’re doing this even though my specific content is mostly available in any number of places anyway, given that it’s literature.