Dropbox limits free access to its service to no more than three devices

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Dropbox is a cross-platform cloud-based hosting service It ranks high and has a reputation among the world's most widely used cloud storage services.

The service enables users to store and sync files online and between computers and share files and folders with other users and with tablets and mobiles.There are free and paid versions, each of which has a variety of options.

The mobile version is available for Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry and iOS (Apple).

Having said that, Dropbox has just defined limits on the use of its service, an option that surprises many people in the community.

Dropbox puts limits on free users

Dropbox has decided to limit the number of devices you can link instantly to your Dropbox account only 3 if you only have free access to the service.

"Basic users are limited to three devices as of March 2019."

If they only have free access to the Dropbox provider, now they will be able to view their backups only on a limited number of devices.

The company has made its free offers available only on 3 devices. This is what the company announced on its official website earlier this month.

As cloud storage offerings become increasingly competitive, it can be difficult for cloud storage providers to find the right compromise between offering lower-priced offers and free offers.

Advanced and professional users can connect an unlimited number of devices. Business users can link unlimited devices, but Advanced Dropbox and Enterprise administrators can limit the number of devices their teams can link.

If you are a basic user and you have connected more than three devices before March 2019, all your previously paired devices will remain so, but you cannot pair other devices.

Which means there is no way to add another unless you delete it up to the limit of 2. You delete one and add another.

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Here's how it goes now to free subscribers.

Force everyone to become premium users?

With this situation disclosed by Dropbox could force some users to leave the provider and turn to competitors, some warn.

There are other similar and very good options such as Google with its Google Drive offering, Microsoft with its OneDrive service, and many more.

They explain that Dropbox's direct competitors They also offer free offers and most of them do not have such a limitation in the use of their services.

From what many explain about the strategy that Dropbox has just adopted, the latter would be in a difficult situation.

Free users probably weigh heavily on your results. This is something that can happen, they say, when you are not Google who can offer 15 GB of free use to its users.

So it's understandable wanting to force users to switch to a paid account. Unfortunately for Dropbox, there are many other free options that can change.

According to others, the mere fact of losing users, whether they are free or not, is something such a company should avoid.

Dropbox has undoubtedly made a series of decisions that have affected Linux users. This decision is somewhat reminiscent of August 2018, when the company announced that in the future it would remove all file systems on Linux except ext4 without encryption.

There are so many who believe that the company would suffer from a lack of funds to support its various offerings.. For most of them, Dropbox could be acquired by a cloud storage giant in the next few years.

Alternatives for Linux

Though there are different providers of cloud storage services, not all of them have official clients for Linux. Hence there are few that can replace Dropbox.

You can check the next post to learn about some of these.


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