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I've been a loyal Dropbox user since its inception as a [Y Combinator startup](https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/dropbox/) ten years ago. Having a folder on all of my devices that instantly synchronized with each other was a game-changer for me, and I grew dependent on it more and more as they gave out free storage like candy — 48 GB for having a Samsung Chromebook, 1 GB for "Posting <3 to Twitter," and so on — until I needed to upgrade to Dropbox Pro. But this month I canceled my Pro subscription after a few too many strikes.
import Tweet from "./components/embeds/Tweet";
import Video from "./components/embeds/Video";
I've been a loyal Dropbox user since its inception as a [Y Combinator startup](https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/dropbox/) ten years ago. Having a folder on all of my devices that instantly synchronized with each other was a game-changer for me, and I grew dependent on it more and more as they gave out free storage like candy — 48 GB for having a Samsung Chromebook, 1 GB for "Posting \<3 to Twitter," and so on — until I needed to upgrade to Dropbox Pro. But this month I canceled my Pro subscription after a few too many strikes.
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- Adding a [3-device limit](https://help.dropbox.com/account/computer-limit) for free accounts, triggering another hostage negotiation resulting in me upgrading to Pro.
- Continuously forcing [bloated updates](https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/11/18661673/new-dropbox-desktop-app-google-docs-slack-atlassian) to their once-simple macOS app down users' throats, to the point where ["the new Dropbox"](https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/product-tips/new-dropbox) was consistently eating up _over a gigabyte of RAM_ and a non-negligible chunk of CPU usage thanks to an entire web browser being embedded into it:
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<Tweet id="1138686582859239425" />
- Explicitly [dropping support for symlinking](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20844363) (aka making aliases to) files outside of the literal `~/Dropbox` folder, which was incredibly helpful for nerds — once their main audience and biggest cheerleaders — with things like [dotfiles](https://github.com/jakejarvis/dotfiles) and Git repositories.
- ...and as a bonus, making the process of canceling Dropbox Pro incredibly convoluted, annoying, and sketchy. Here's a video demonstration via [Justin Dunham](https://twitter.com/jwyattd):
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url={[
{ src: "/static/images/notes/dropping-dropbox/cancel.webm", type: "video/webm" },
{ src: "/static/images/notes/dropping-dropbox/cancel.mp4", type: "video/mp4" },