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How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac

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1037 points 8bitben | 1 comments | 09 Sep 16 15:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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Sir_Cmpwn ◴[09 Sep 16 16:27 UTC] No.12463720[source]▶
Great article, but poor conclusion. He finds that Dropbox is untrustworthy, a finding that likely surprises no one, and reaches for iCloud as the solution. Why move into another walled garden driven by corporate interests? OwnCloud or a similar self hosted solution would be better. I just use NFS and a dead simple storage server to make ~/shared available on all of my machines.
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1. erikb ◴[09 Sep 16 16:34 UTC] No.12463782[source]▶
In many cases self hosted is better. One needs to consider that this also needs some time to maintain, though. Personally I also like ownCloud but still mostly use Dropbox.