Dropbox blames crypto miners and resellers for ending its unlimited cloud storage plan
by Emma Roth from The Verge - All Posts on (#6E5KK)
Image: Dropbox Dropbox said in a blog post that it's implementing a metered model on its Advanced plan in response to customers who have been using Dropbox for cryptocurrency mining, pooling storage for personal use cases," and others reselling it.
Because of that, Dropbox is getting rid of its as much space as you need" offer. Customers who sign up for a Dropbox Advanced plan with three active licenses will instead receive 15TB of storage across their whole team. As for businesses currently on the plan, the company says those using less than 35TB of storage will get to keep that amount, plus an additional 5TB credit of pooled storage, for five years at no additional charge to their existing plan."
Dropbox will throw in an additional 5TB of storage...