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How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac

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new299 ◴[] No.12463925[source]
Dropbox circumventing security restrictions (albeit for legit reasons) is particularly worrying because they have board members who support warrentless surveillance.

In my mind Dropbox became a company not worth supporting when Rice joined Dropbox's board (http://www.drop-dropbox.com/). Personally, with a board member who advocates warrentless surveillance it seems unlikely that we share similar views on the security of my data, and I wont be using their service.

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aRationalMoose ◴[] No.12464322[source]
Got a good alt suggestion?
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1. aerique ◴[] No.12464749[source]
The German branch of Seafile: https://seafile.de/en/products/

I switched all my data (about 250Gb) to them from Dropbox a couple of months ago and it has worked out well enough.

Features:

- servers not based in the US

- encryption

- privacy

- open source (thanks lima)

- multiple libraries (like multiple separate Dropbox folders)

- nice file manager for unsynced (parts of) libraries

- price

- payment options (Bitcoin)

- supports more OSes

- one can run one's own server

Cons vs Dropbox:

- syncing problems not always obvious

- some UX issues

- photo support

- selective sync cumbersome (if not using libraries)

- no LAN sync

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2. lima ◴[] No.12464813[source]
And Seafile is open source, too.