Dropbox Transfer launches for all users

Dropbox announced today that it is making its new data transfer tool Dropbox Transfer available to all customers of the service.
The company launched Dropbox Transfer Beta earlier this year as a solution to send files, and just files, to others. The main idea behind Transfer is that it is designed as a straightforward way to send files to anyone, Dropbox customers and anyone else, without having to worry about access rights, links to the files so that edits are taking into consideration, or that the recipient is a Dropbox customer.
Transfer is our answer to a common problem: Sometimes you simply want to hand off files. No giving people edit access to your originals, no links that let people download updates you make later—just, “Here are your files!†While email might work for a JPEG or two, collections of large multimedia files easily go well beyond the typical 25 MB attachment limit. And Dropbox shared links are best for when recipients need access to always up-to-date files.
Transfer, though, lets you send up to 100 GB of files in just a few clicks. Just select files from your hard drive or Dropbox account to create your transfer. You can even password protect it and set an expiration date to encourage recipients to download the files. You'll get a link you can send to anyone—even if they aren't on Dropbox. After you send it, viewership stats let you see how many times the transfer's been accessed.
Transfer is designed to send files directly to recipients similar to how Firefox Send works only that the former requires a Dropbox account.
Select Transfer on the Dropbox website to get started. Dropbox displays information about quotas as the maximum file size depends on the account type. Free Dropbox users may use Transfer to send files with a maximum size of 100 Megabytes. Dropbox Plus and Business Standard customers may transfer files with a size of up to 2 Gigabytes, and Professional, Business Advanced, Enterprise, or Education customers files with a maximum size of 100 Gigabytes.
A click on "create transfer" starts the process. Files can be added from the local computer system or from Dropbox. Local files don't count against the customers storage quota on Dropbox. Once you have added files or entire folders (with files), if you are a paying customer, you may click on the settings icon to change the expiration date of the transfer (up to 90 days) and set a password. Free users may not use these options which means that the files are not password protected and that the expiration is 7 days.
Dropbox creates the transfer afterwards and displays a link that points to the data. The link can be shared with others. Transfers can be managed on the Web; there you find information about the total number of views and downloads, and an option to delete the data right away.
paying customers may change the background and logo of the transfer interface that users who activate the Transfer link see.
How does it compare to Firefox Send?
Firefox Send allows anyone to send files with a total size of 1 Gigabyte and those with a free Firefox account files with a maximum size of 2.5 Gigabytes. The service supports passwords and limits may be set as well to restrict access by time or downloads.
Dropbox Transfer requires a Dropbox account and limits free users to a maximum file size of 100 Megabytes. One advantage, maybe the only one, that Transfer offers to free users is that users may pick files that are already stored by Dropbox; this reduces the time it takes to prepare downloads as no uploading takes place in that case.
Closing Words
Dropbox customers may find Transfer useful as it allows them to send files to non-Dropbox users easily nearly hassle-free. I cannot see many new customers signing up for Dropbox just to use Transfer, not with free options like Firefox Send available on the Internet.
Now You: What is your take on Dropbox Transfer, and, are you using Dropbox?


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.
When will you put an end to the mess in the comments?
Ghacks comments have been broken for too long. What article did you see this comment on? Reply below. If we get to 20 different articles we should all stop using the site in protest.
I posted this on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/] so please reply if you see it on a different article.
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Article Title: Reddit enforces user activity tracking on site to push advertising revenue
Article URL: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
No surprises here. This is just the beginning really. I cannot see a valid reason as to why anyone would continue to use the platform anymore when there are enough alternatives fill that void.
I’m not sure if there is a point in commenting given that comments seem to appear under random posts now, but I’ll try… this comment is for https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
My temporary “solution”, if you can call it that, is to use a VPN (Mullvad in my case) to sign up for and access Reddit via a European connection. I’m doing that with pretty much everything now, at least until the rest of the world catches up with GDPR. I don’t think GDPR is a magical privacy solution but it’s at least a first step.