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		jimmaswell on Jan 14, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce Dropbox makes constant notifications on your desktop about upgrading alongside emails. I'd have considered paying for them if they weren't like this but now I never will. Maybe they'd have an easier time being profitable if they didn't push away all their long term users.

sushid on Jan 14, 2021 [–]

Are you suggesting that Dropbox could better monetize their free tier users by trying to not monetize them?

jimmaswell on Jan 14, 2021 | [–]

There's a middle ground between aggressive nagging/spam/a sudden 3 device limit (not even at the same time, total) and no attempt to monetize.

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