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"try for free" - can't see what the pricing for this is anywhere. Does it require Dropbox plus?

Arg, these kind of landing pages drive me nuts!

They all follow the same pattern: introduce a paid-for product, tell you a bit about it, then give you a link to try it for free - OK, but then how much is it actually going to cost!!

Sorry for the rant, but there are just so many landing pages using this dark pattern, and I'm absolutely sick of it.

Yes also from that landing page you can't go anywhere or have any info on dropbox and who they are or what other products they offer. [1]

[1] My aunt does not know who dropbox is or what they do. My accountant might not either.

Size appears to depend on plan: https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/share/dropbox-transfe...

Basic (free): 100MB Plus: 2GB Professional: 100GB Business Standard: 2GB Business Advanced, Enterprise, or Education: 100GB

Wetransfer offers 2GB.

I'm having issues not using Dropbox Plus even for the basic service after they limited the free version to three devices or less. Can't have a phone, two laptops and a desktop machine using the same account. Feels like they're really trying to push people to upgrade.

I would pay for a personal or home version of Dropbox. The business plans start at $150 / year which is way too much for what I use it for.

Give me the free plan and charge me $12 / year / device to unlock additional devices. I want to use it on my desktop, iPad, phone, and laptop.

OneDrive is interesting but Dropbox is a far more common datastore for apps on my phone and iPad.

There is a personal version (2 TB) of Dropbox, but it costs €120 per year.

Meanwhile the cheapest Google Drive plan (100 GB) is €20 per year, cheapest iCloud plan (50 GB) is €12 per year and the chepest OneDrive plan (100 GB) is €24 per year. There's also Nextcloud, which you can host yourself or pay someone like Hetzner to host you an instance (€43 per year for 100 GB).

I don't think the value proposition of the personal Dropbox plan is actually that good compared to really any of the competitors. Most individual Dropbox users probably don't need 2 TB storage or any of the other fancy features being advertised. I think I'm personally under 20 GB after all these years of Dropbox usage.

Leaving the link open for more than 7 days requires PRO and if you want to password protect the link you also need PRO. Pretty stupid in my eyes that that doesn't come with it.

You need Pro to change the expiration date or set a password.

Thanks! Looks like Firefox Send is the better free tool for now then.

For occasional uses and normal transfers, Firefox send is really better. Dropbox transfer becomes useful when you want to share files that you already have in your Dropbox.

I use both and they both have their users.

Firefox send is also encrypted locally, right? Dropbox doesn't look encrypted, but I've never used it.

what annoys me is the password part used to be a plus feature[1]. This is why I've started to try to move things to be self-hosted. Unfortunately I've been struggling with nextcloud + my NAS due to filesystem constraints. And it's to avoid silly crap like that that we enjoyed the cloud services. Ah, what a loop!

[1]: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Files-folders/Was-the-abilit...

What kind of filesystem constraints problem you run into? I've been using nextcloud on a vps using docker and resizing/moving storage used by nextcloud is quite easy on this setup (simply update the container volume config)

attempting to use nextcloudpi on a pine64 rock64 with a mounted data directory (NFS share from my NAS). The data directory must be brtfs and I can't resize down / add in a partition on my NAS software. So i'm stuck for the moment.

I'll likely use a spare 1TB USB hard drive as data dir and backup regularly, i'm unlikely to use more space than that - or otherwise just host the whole thing on AWS instead of at home.

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