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meroje | 5 years ago

Good time to remind everyone that the password prompt from Dropbox (in the screenshots, located right below the "Turn on notifications" from the OS) is fake. They pretend to use the password only to turn on accessibility permissions.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/dropbox-responds-to-mac...

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pixxel|5 years ago

Gah. That is shitty. I deleted dropbox when Condoleezza Rice joined the board back in 2014ish.

ypcx|5 years ago

I've quit Dropbox when they capped the free account to (I think) 3 devices only. I'm now using Mega.nz which has end-to-end encryption and works well. I actually have a paid account with them to backup photos from my phones. My local cloud directory is still named Dropbox.

Luc|5 years ago

It's not fake, it's using a standard Apple-provided API. They are not stealing your password.

As is explained in the link you provided.

thedirt0115|5 years ago

That looks like it's from 2016 -- is this still the case? (I'm not a Dropbox user, but would like to know)

dazhbog|5 years ago

Wow i didnt know this! Thanks for the heads up.