Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits::Some people have taken “as much space as you need” too literally.

  • Mane25
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    1 year ago

    Why, you know there isn’t mythical endless and free source of crab legs right?

    If there’s not then they have no business selling an unlimited supply of it.

    Nobody should reasonably think there is. “Endless” is advertising.

    Where I’m from services should be as advertised, legally so.

    • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world
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      It’s was unlimited. People uploaded whatever they wanted. The business had to reassess because these gluttonous people took it too far and so the service ended.

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        In what world are “unlimited” and “all you can eat” synonymous with “too far”?

        “Too far” implies a definite limit, which is the antonym of unlimited and all you can eat, regardless of the business’s ability to sustain it. If there is a limit, don’t advertise it as unlimited or all you can eat that’s false advertisement.

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            In the marketing department apparently.

            Companies should stop saying unlimited if we all agree nothing is unlimited, don’t you think?

            • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world
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              We should be more responsible with services offered regardless what the service is otherwise. Growing up i remember life time guarantees, they no longer exist because these people who abuse services

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                Lifetime guarantees are absolutely still a thing. But it’s normally for higher priced items since the quality of the average ware went down.

                I agree with you that customers should become more responsible for the decisions they make. But we’ve proven time and time again (for decades if not longer) that customers are not rational actors that know everything about everything. Ads would never work if that was a thing.

                But here we are. There are laws against false advertising and words have exact meanings. The fact that “unlimited” is still not false advertising baffles me. It should be.

                I guess you’re okay with predatory wordings in product descriptions that target people who don’t understand that things cannot be without limits? Just because they should know better, ignoring the fact you don’t know everything? Where do you draw the line? Would you blindly trust a single drug description saying it cures cancer, though no such thing can ever exist?

              • GroggyGuava@lemmy.world
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                No, they no longer exist bc they were never sustainable, but they knew that in the first place and sold it as “life time” bc they knew they could make money by lying to customers. Lying is bad and we all agree businesses shouldn’t lie, no?

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            That’s kind of the point: Companies shouldn’t be allowed to advertise anything as unlimited when it is, in fact, not.

            • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world
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              They shouldn’t advertise lots of things but personal responsibility could have resulted in this service still being available so the bigger issue to me is the self regulation. I would bet good money the reason people used this much storage was for commercial reasons which would be abusing a personal use account. Which people should be pissed at rather than the unlimited.

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                  They didn’t lie. Users could upload whatever they could. But individuals uploaded so much it made the company reassess what they offered. So like in life, the rest of us lose out because a handful of assholes abused a system

                  • eee@lemm.ee
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                    Unlimited doesn’t mean “upload what you want to a certain limit”, it means “upload what you want, as much as you want”.

                    You’re misunderstanding the word unlimited, as countless others before me have already pointed out to you

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                    You seem to be struggling with the English language and what words mean. This is beyond my ability to help you at this point so have a good day and good luck!

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            In what world do Nigerian princes email random people and offer to send them millions of dollars? Is it ok to scam old people and idiots because they should know better?

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        No, if it was unlimited, I should be able to pipe /dev/urandom to it for fun if that’s what I choose to do. What’s this about “gluttony”? They sold the service as that.

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          You can do it doesn’t mean you should which is my point. I can leave trash in a theater because they offer a service where workers clean it up. Doesn’t mean I should even though it’d advertised as part of the theater experience.

          I’d go so far to say that we’re dealing with a culture of people who are in capable of self regulating and that is why so many things are worse for people today. Just because its offered as a service shouldn’t mean I push its limits regardless of the gimmick used to advertise it.

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              I’m not. Do you have access to this service anymore?

              No one does because of a handful of abusive people who took it too far. This isnt the only case of this either. I’m arguing because I’ve lost many good services because of people that cant self regulate themselves

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                Why would you need to regulate the usage of an unlimited service? Aren’t you paying for the luxury of not having to regulate yourself to a fixed limit?

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                  Why would you need to regulate anything. Why can’t I leave my shopping cart where ever I like. Why shouldn’t I leave all the trash in my seat. Why shouldn’t I throw cigarette butts out my window. There’s lots of advertised services that are limitless that doesn’t make it right to abuse it

                  • NotSoCoolWhip@lemmy.world
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                    None of the things you mentioned were a service you paid for, that’s called a false equivalency.

                    I would say go ahead if you were paying for a shopping cart collector, personal trash collector, and a cigarette butt collector. Why would you hire them if you did not intend to use their services?

                    The business made a deal, people took them up on their offer. It was a voluntary action on each side. If there was no intention or ability follow through on what they were offering, they should not have done so in the first place. Just make the cap 30tb or whatever. This eliminates the potential for abuse and does not trick consumers into thinking they will receive the service they paid for.

                    You’ve clearly got no critical thinking skills. Don’t be upset that people expect to be able to use a service they pay for, from a company that chose to offer that service.

            • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world
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              Because we all know its a business and that unspoken thing is the same everywhere, you have access to a service just don’t be a dick about it.

          • JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml
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            If the theater specifically advertised itself as a place where you could leave as much trash as you wanted, then yes, that would make it reasonable to do.

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        The business advertised something to differentiate itself from the free market, it’s not the free markets fault if the business cannot sustain what it advertised

            • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world
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              The theater has a service where they clean up after customers right. So I can take advantage of the service by leaving all my garbage on the ground. Hell I could bring my own garbage from home and Leave it for them. Taking advantage of services in some cases creates a risk that you’ll lose that service for everybody else and that should mean any service we use should mean we assess if the way we use any service is creating that risk