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Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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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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[–] carl_dungeon 246 points 1 year ago (65 children)

You can’t abuse something that has no limit. Stop calling things unlimited and then blaming users when they are not.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I read somewhere about someone who took a zip file, copied it and zipped it with the copy over and over again until the file size ballooned to petabytes. I would consider that sort of pointless use of storage to be abuse.

[–] carl_dungeon 36 points 1 year ago

Then put an * and say that there are a couple well documented exceptions, like zip bombing or don’t call it unlimited and call it up to 100TB for x dollars.

[–] uis 2 points 1 year ago

Aaaand? It's like if phone companies called dial-up abuse.

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