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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: 0s | 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. ska ◴[09 Sep 16 17:33 UTC] No.12464361[source]▶
"OwnCloud or a similar self hosted solution would be better."

Perhaps better for limited use cases that don't really apply to the vast majority of Dropbox's user base.

You start off comparing apples to oranges, and with your latter solution, you aren't even comparing to fruit anymore.