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Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 111 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (15 children)

... enabled-by-default...

... shares your Dropbox data with OpenAI ...

... an experimental AI-powered search feature. ...

... user data [IS] shared with third-party AI partners...

This would be more than enough reason for me to cancel and delete my account if I were still a customer.

If you can't trust a company with your data, then you can't trust the company at all.

Why do companies have to be so opaque with things? If they really wanted users to try some experimental, data-sharing feature, offer it to them as an opt-in beta feature and pay them for being a guinea pig.

Consent with compensation is way better than non-consent with zero transparency.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (10 children)

Fuck. I have been using them for backup for years, I currently have everything on my NAS but still like having important stuff in an offsite backup.

Anyone know a reasonably priced cloud storage provider that has integration (either 3rd or 1st party) with Unraid?

Edit: Dropbox just renewed my annual subscription last night at midnight 🙃

Double edit: I went into my Dropbox web portal and found that the setting was enabled by default for me. I'm in the US.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I use wasabi, it's an Amazon s3 compatible storage solution, $5/month/TB with no network or access fees

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Oh that's not bad! Thanks I'll look into it. What are you using to send the backups to Wasabi?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I run my NAS on TrueNAS, and it just has a built-in solution for taking ZFS snapshots, encrypting them, and shipping them to an S3-compatible storage.

However, for unraid, I think your easiest thing will be to use the rclone plugin

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