Dropbox is ramping up the sleaze with misleading spam emails

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23 points·mrzool··6 comments

I got a very similar email last year. This isn't new and I think they're just blindly sending emails to anyone with a custom domain name. Got one from Katy last year thanking me and saying:

"You may not be aware, but many of your colleagues are also using Dropbox for their work. It’s great to see this high level of engagement!"

I'm the only person using my domain name, haha.

I don't know how these are sleaze emails. These are marketing emails. If you are using a free version of something, they will try to push you to a paid or enterprise version. I bought an iPhone but still get emails from them to get the Apple TV or the Apple News or the Apple Card service. How is this any different.

They do this on paid versions. They use fake, misleading subject lines and pretend to be non-massmails.

I dropped Dropbox a while ago when _I was literally paying to receive ads in multiple places_

You can unsubscribe. This is not sleazy, it’s a standard business practice that most companies engage in.

Most companies outright lie and try to trick paying customers into thinking the mails they send is personal and not mass mail? I'm glad I have never met any of these "most companies".

>This is not sleazy, it’s a standard business practice that most companies engage in.

The two aren't mutually exclusive; and ...

> a standard business practice and most companies engage in.

... just makes it all the more concerning.

Consumers are a tolerant bunch -- they put up with a lot of sleaziness -- but it doesn't make the practice any less sleazy.

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