Dropbox says that these changes are necessary in order to curb abuse from malicious actors and also because it’s not feasible to keep updating its acceptable use-cases list and apply it in a scalable manner.
“Malicious actors” aka customers fully taking advantage of the agreed upon service cotract they are fulfilling their part of, by paying money. But when time comes to allow them to store 18PB of linux iso images – they magically turn to malicious actors…
I do agree with the second part of the statement there, that unlimited storage plans are unfeasible and unsustainable evil and should have been curbed long ago. Even google has done it, after decades of offering unlimited storage.
Yeah, I hate this change of attitude regarding customers, that many companies manifest. Instead of calling themselves stupid, they rage against customers who use their service in full.
“Hey, here’s 10 free oranges! Come, get some, kind sir!
Ouh, you took them all, you rude, malintent, creep, scum!”
I’ve found the Nextcloud Windows app behaves pretty much the same as Onedrive Sync. Been running Nextcloud for a bit over 2 years now and use it every day at work Some updates have broken things but I’ve never been in the position of not being able to fix it and having to restore from backup. Would be close to 1TB stored in my Nextcloud now.
Market analyst: Hey Boss we found out that our customers only use 500GB each, but they gladly pay for 1TB
Boss: so we can sell them infinite storage for more money and they won’t use it… lets do that…
Some Time Later…
Engineer: So Boss your brilliant plan failed… now we have PB scale customers and no earnings.
Boss: i think we are all to blame here, we better walk it back and fire some people to make up for the losses.