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by lucozade 4121 days ago
Surely tradition requires that the title of this piece be "Is Dropbox stealing your files?". I mean, it's a complete waste of a Betteridge event.
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Ha, I always wondered if there was a name for this (but obviously also never bothered to Google).

> Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist

It's in response to an earlier-submitted article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9136546
That is, in fact, titled in the correct manner. Maybe Betteridge doesn't count if the thrust of the article is actually to point out that "no" is the correct answer. I hadn't thought of that.