Dropbox cancels plans with unlimited storage; to understand

Last Thursday (24) Dropbox announced the end of its unlimited cloud storage plan. After this, Dropbox Advanced plan customers with three active licenses will have access to 15TB, with an additional 5TB per new subscription.

In a note, the company revealed that it discovered that some of its customers were using the unlimited storage facility for cryptocurrency mining, grouping data from unrelated people, and even violating the service’s terms of use by reselling the storage.

“In recent months, we’ve seen an increase in this behavior after other services have made similar policy changes,” the note on the Dropbox website emphasizes.

The company also specifically Consumed thousands of times more space than the original companiesrisks creating an “unreliable experience for all customers”.

What will change for Dropbox customers?

According to Dropbox, 99% of Advanced customers use less than 35TB of storage per license. Like this, these will be able to hold the entire storage space 5 TB of credit at no additional charge for five years in addition to the currently used credit.

The other 1%, using more than 35 TB of storage, will be able to maintain their existing storage with an additional 5 TB at no additional cost. for just one year.

Customers needing additional space will be able to purchase storage add-ons from November 1, when the migration begins. The add-on plan offers 1TB for $10 (R$50) per month or $8 (R$40) for the annual plan. All customers will be notified of the transition 30 days in advance.

Dropbox has implemented the measure implemented in Google One

As stated by BloombergThe Dropbox note refers to Google One while referring to other services that have made similar changes.

According to its website, the company quietly removed the “as much storage as you need” option in May of this year. The change can be observed via screenshots of the website Return Machinebut not officially announced.