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Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits::Some people have taken "as much space as you need" too literally.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what would they do if some user just decides to use more than their "limit"? like hundreds of TB?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Boot them, most likely. Or eat the cost, and look to shutter the free space/apply limits ASAP.

Not unlike Amazon Cloud, Google Drive, and Dropbox here. There was someone on the datahoarders Reddit who famously shoved a Petabyte of Data into their Cloud Drive offering, and likely contributed to it being shut down as a result.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

likely contributed to it being shut down as a result.

hope they had an offline backup.