Dropbox will fight cryptocurrency mining on its platform
The platform assured that there are people who were taking advantage of this to carry out illegitimate activities with cryptocurrencies
Dropbox announced the end of its ‘as much space as you need’ policy, removing unlimited storage from its Dropbox Advanced plan to curb illegitimate activities by users using this service to mine cryptocurrency or resell storage.
The Dropbox Advanced subscription plan was designed specifically for use with businesses, so they don’t have to worry about regularly expanding storage as their needs and equipment grow.
Thus, one of the most notable features of the Advanced plan was that the teams had access to all the storage they needed, in addition to administration, auditing, security and integration functions.
Now, as of this Friday, customers who purchase a Dropbox Advanced plan will not have this unlimited storage feature, since the company has announced its cessation to curb illegal activities that were carried out at the expense of this service, such as the cryptocurrency mining.
As Dropbox detailed in a statement on its website, in recent months they have identified “an increasing number” of customers who purchase an Advanced subscription plan for purposes such as cryptocurrency and Chia mining, storage pooling for personal use, and storage resale.
In fact, as they highlighted, these activities consumed “thousands of times more storage” than typical customer and business usage. In this framework, the company has ruled that this type of use creates a “risk” for its customers, causing its service to be “an unreliable experience” and that, therefore, they have decided to “prohibit abusive behavior.”
Source: dpa
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