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Yours is a fair argument, but you are being downvoted for a contrarian view. I too have two devices I ideally have to sync between.

Also, why do we expect corporations to dole out free goodies for everyone? Dropbox has a good product, they should be able to charge for it.

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I expect them to honor the agreement I had with them when originally signing up with them, and promoting them to others (earning 20GB of storage through referrals). If they want to reserve new features for paid accounts, fine, but don’t cripple existing free accounts to make them effectively useless.

And where exactly did Dropbox make a legally binding agreement with you that allows you to sync 20GB to an unlimited number of devices for perpetuity? The agreement you're referencing doesn't exist.

Of course there’s no legally binding agreement. It’s still a shitty move to renege the conditions of an existing account.

We are civilized people and don't need to shove contracts in each other's faces for everything. Somehow we have gone from being too violent to too litigious. Not bad compared to violence, but can be better.

I agree with you, if there was any mention of free storage for referrals, it should be honored. There should be no legal binding agreement. We are not savages to need contracts for everything. A person's (or corporation's) word should have some value.

>effectively useless.

fake news

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