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Dropbox Passwords Discontinuation

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Dropbox is dropping (as in discounting -- not as in releasing) their password manager product *called* Passwords [0].

I had expected from the link/article title ("Dropbox Passwords Discontinuation") that Dropbox was going passwordless in general, e.g. for their main data sync product. This does *not* appear to be the case.

At least this news restores the normal order to things.

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/features/security/passwords

As in "discontinuing" (not discounting)

You are correct.

Does this lower your likelihood to use them for other things? It's painful to switch.

Or is Dropbox hunkering down? Their market cap is $7.6bln on a roughly flat $2.5bln in revenue (compared to $4.5bln and $1.1 for Box) which suggests they're still relevant. Perhaps they're accepting that growth is gone, and time to focus on the cost side?

They also discontinued the screenshot / recording tool I used. Buggy and slow. But it integrated well.

Are they just thrashing around at this point without vision?

Most of what I’ve seen launch from them has been… undercooked.

I mean that's what they did before why change course now?

I've been a paying user for years. Their desktop UI is awful. They introduced a feature that took me hours and hours to disable (the file not downloaded until you try to open it thing). One bit of documentation pretty much lied about turning it off. Turned out it had to be disabled in more than one place.

I still use them as I don't have time to move else where. Plus they run on Linux and windows which is what I need.

I wish they had "I'm only interested in file sync" mode so that the whole mess of other features is hidden from me.

> I wish they had "I'm only interested in file sync" mode so that the whole mess of other features is hidden from me.

Unfortunately dropbox has been in the Enshittification phase for quite a while. They had a good while where they had extra features but no one used them cause no one wanted random feature 'x' from dropbox, they just wanted to sync files so dropbox began pushing them in your face and making you work to get what they had working perfectly 15 years ago.

> They introduced a feature that took me hours and hours to disable (the file not downloaded until you try to open it thing). One bit of documentation pretty much lied about turning it off. Turned out it had to be disabled in more than one place.

Are you able to say what the relevant settings are? (I would like to be able to do that too ...)

Sorry I can't remember, it was years ago. I've moved that pc to Linux and the Dropbox client doesn't have that feature.

Are they trying to compete with Google in the number of projects at the cemetery?

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