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> There's something abrasive about implying that customers paying and using capabilities of their highest tier as non-genuine.

I disagree. Their website makes it abundantly clear that this product is for employee productivity. The people doing this are well aware that what they're doing is hacky and costing Dropbox lots of money.

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Maybe then Dropbox shouldn’t have called it unlimited huh?

Businesses have different needs. Some might use it for employee productivity and some might use it to store a ton of bins.

They didn't. They called it "Dropbox Advanced for businesses" and whenever they mention storage it's always in the context of it being for team collaboration or documents.

"As much space as you need. Get as much space as your team needs for storage and collaboration."

https://web.archive.org/web/20221103000218/https://help.drop...

I would ask you to define documents. But they did not say documents. And they admitted some business would be affected.

Unlimited within reason. That kind of technical nitpicking the same tactic crytobros use when they power their rigs with residential power included in their leases.

Dropbox probably tunes their systems to loads and access patterns seen in normal documents-based business usage. Not for backing CDN services and such.

They already had reason, in theory. You had to ask for storage increases and they only did so much per week/month.

> backing CDN services and such.

That's against ToS anyway.

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