Dropbox does this too (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-11-03 08:05 (#2TW8) I decided to give dropbox a go for its autosync feature. Worked great. Take a picture or video and the file would sync to DB if there was internet connectivity. Great. After a while I stopped using it and decided to clean up a bit. I found 1GB of personal photos had been uploaded from the SD card. WTF? I knew that new photos would sync but had no idea 1 GB of my mobile plan was blown on those photos. Luckily those days I had 3 GB quota. If it happened today I would be paying hundreds in excess data charges. The part about semi nude pictures of me being uploaded without my permission also bothers me. Now I have my own cloud. Re: Dropbox does this too (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-11-03 11:21 (#2TWB) So does Google. My phone started bothering me to turn on autosync something or other and as soon as I figured out what it was doing I shut it the hell off. Lots and lots of pictures going from my phone to Google and some of it becoming available via G+ or something (or at least, being at risk of that happening) made my blood run cold. I don't want anything autosyncing ever, unless I set it up myself. I saved a stupid from Reddit to my Downloads folder on my tablet, and later found it synced to my Android phone a bit later - WTF? Not what I wanted, and good thing it was a stupid cat picture and not something else ...Not happy about this new autosync world - I know it's being portrayed as a convenience but to me it's a way bigger risk than it is a convenience. Re: Dropbox does this too (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-11-03 13:28 (#2TWF) Somehow my contacts were already in my new phone when I went to do the import.. not just the ones that were on the sim card..... and I was using a new gmail account for it. ?!?!? It freaks me out what these anti-social companies think they have a right to do... just because they hide it 40 pages into a eula.
Re: Dropbox does this too (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-11-03 11:21 (#2TWB) So does Google. My phone started bothering me to turn on autosync something or other and as soon as I figured out what it was doing I shut it the hell off. Lots and lots of pictures going from my phone to Google and some of it becoming available via G+ or something (or at least, being at risk of that happening) made my blood run cold. I don't want anything autosyncing ever, unless I set it up myself. I saved a stupid from Reddit to my Downloads folder on my tablet, and later found it synced to my Android phone a bit later - WTF? Not what I wanted, and good thing it was a stupid cat picture and not something else ...Not happy about this new autosync world - I know it's being portrayed as a convenience but to me it's a way bigger risk than it is a convenience. Re: Dropbox does this too (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-11-03 13:28 (#2TWF) Somehow my contacts were already in my new phone when I went to do the import.. not just the ones that were on the sim card..... and I was using a new gmail account for it. ?!?!? It freaks me out what these anti-social companies think they have a right to do... just because they hide it 40 pages into a eula.
Re: Dropbox does this too (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-11-03 13:28 (#2TWF) Somehow my contacts were already in my new phone when I went to do the import.. not just the ones that were on the sim card..... and I was using a new gmail account for it. ?!?!? It freaks me out what these anti-social companies think they have a right to do... just because they hide it 40 pages into a eula.