Dropbox drops public folders for new customers
A public folder was automatically added to every Dropbox account as a means to share or make publicly available files on the Internet without having to do any configuration of sorts. While that was handy for web developers and other users who wanted to test stuff without having to go through a lengthy configuration process, it also resulted that some public folders were indexed in search engines such as Google or Bing.
If Dropbox users did not pay attention to that, they could inadvertently make important documents or files available publicly. Dropbox in June announced that it would not create public folders for new users come July 31. The change however did not happen until two days ago, when Dropbox announced that the company has stopped creating public folders on new Dropbox accounts.
Existing Dropbox accounts are not affected by the change at all which means that public folders will work just like before on those accounts.
New Dropbox users are asked to use the new sharing feature instead which enables them to share any file or folder regardless of location in the account. While public folders are not created automatically anymore for new customers of the file synchronization service, it is still possible to create a public folder for those accounts. All you need to do is click on this link to enable the public folder for a new account.
Most Dropbox users likely won't miss the public folder at all. Those who do, can enable it to use its functionality just like before.
On a side note: if you want to find out which of your files and folders are publicly accessible on Dropbox, you can use this link to find out. The page on Dropbox lists all public files and folders, and provides you with options to remove the public flag from them.
Additional information about the new way of sharing files publicly are available on this Dropbox Help page. (via Caschy)
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.