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by nsmartt 4818 days ago
I really want to use AeroFS, but I have a few criticisms.

a) One of its goals is privacy, but it asks for my first and last name. Why is this needed? I could always lie, but I'd much prefer a single field (e.g. display name) that doesn't explicitly ask for this.

b) It tries to download a .deb file if I'm using Linux. I'd much rather click this myself, and I suspect it does this regardless of whether my system is Debian-based.

c) When signing up, I got no notifications at all. This may be due to NoScript, but I had no indication that my signup was completed. I thought perhaps my password wasn't valid or something along those lines, but I eventually tried to sign in-- it worked.

d) "Non-Ubuntu users can also download the tgz archive." .deb files are specific to all Debian-based systems, not just Ubuntu. Is it fine to install the .deb (which you've tried to download for me) on other Debian-based systems or just Ubuntu? It's unclear.

AeroFS is potentially great, but this isn't the first time I've reported concerns over a, b, and d.

Edit: added d, modified last sentence for clarity