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droppedTheBox··on Dropbox Capture
You're missing the point. That's almost the same as the OS doing it natively and pasting into Slack. Except it adds one more step than before, along with permissions & pricing headaches. What's the advantage?

Instead of the native: Screenshot/recording --> clipboard --> Slack

Now you have Screenshot/recording --> clipboard --> Dropbox capture + permissions/billing --> Slack

Why would Dropbox insert itself into a process that works fine without it and adds no benefit?

It's like instead of copying & pasting a paragraph of text into Slack, you use an extension that makes a GDoc of it and then links to that. But why?

droppedTheBox··on Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow
That's an important point and I'm glad you pointed it out. Thank you!
droppedTheBox··on Dropbox Capture
It's the opposite of seamless, no? Instead of pasting the video (which macOS and Windows can both natively record) into your bug tracker or Slack, you have to first upload it to Dropbox Capture, share the link to that, worry about permissions and storage, etc... it adds more friction than it removes
droppedTheBox··on Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow
IMO the Web was better in the Trident days, when IE6's dominance allowed a single defacto web-wide standard (vs today's WHATWG clusterfsk) but alternative browsers like NetCaptor could still provide all the shiny UI chrome, from tabs to integrated popup blocking.

Having a single renderer but multiple browsers on top of it would vastly simplify the web for users & developers, resulting in one consistent engine to develop, test, and fuzz against.

Rather than being the irrelevance it is today, Mozilla focusing on Blink development & governance would have way more impact for billions of users, rather than some obsolete and forgotten build of Firefox.

Then all it'd take is for something like the E.U. to cripple Apple's Webkit-on-iOS monopoly for Blink to take over there too.

Having multiple renderers is just a waste of everyone's time...

droppedTheBox··on Dropbox Capture
Don't understand. What's wrong with just pasting a screenshot or recording into Slack or your PM tool of choice?

Adding Dropbox is just adding another layer of auth, sharing permissions, storage quotas, etc.... ugh