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by xpil 1144 days ago
I actually enjoy Dropbox - for a flat fee of ~€10/month I get 2TB of cloud space plus the synchronization across unlimited devices. I don't mind the telemetry thing, at least not too much.

However, their approach to Android is absolutely ridiculous. There is no files or folders synchronization - at least not at the OS level, like in Windows or Linux. If I need to access my Dropbox files on an Android device, the only way is to do it via the Dropbox app, and it is clunky. The biggest pain point is that I cannot use 3rd party apps to open a folder in my Dropbox storage - I can open a single file, fine, but for example Obsidian is out of reach as it requires opening an entire folder, which is currently not possible.

(I can create an offline copy of the folder on the device and open that one but it defies the purpose of having a sophisticated synchronization software).

So I think at some point I will start investigating alternatives.