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by Gaelan 3378 days ago
Huh, not an unreasonable argument. However:

Dropbox seems to be singled out for doing things like this, despite browsers, Win10, etc.

The updater changes nothing unless someone has done a full audit of the Dropbox binary.

Updater or not, Dropbox/$minitrue can read/write anything you store there. If you have any executables (incl. source code, word docs with macros enabled, git repos via hooks…) in Dropbox, you're pwned as well.

If you don't trust Dropbox, an updater is the least of your concerns.