For entrepreneurs and general heavy users who have been taking advantage of the business-minded Advanced storage plan offered by Dropbox, they will no longer be granted unlimited space. This is in direct response to a marked rise in shady activity relating to crypto.
Dropbox is a cloud data storage service first released in 2008 that is entirely free to use but also includes premium plans. These premium plans include Standard, Advanced, and Professional.
According to the company’s blog, the most popular investment, Advanced, has been seeing an increase in users whose objective is “not to run a business or organization, but instead for purposes like crypto and Chia mining, unrelated individuals pooling storage for personal use cases or even instances of reselling storage.”
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There are always legitimate outliers in situations such as this, but unfortunately, Dropbox is enforcing the new restrictions because the unethical users “frequently consume thousands of times more storage than our genuine business customers, which risks creating an unreliable experience for all of our customers.”
This modified version of the Advanced plan using a metered system will roll out beginning November 1. Customers will receive up to 30 days advance notice prior to Dropbox migrating them to the new policy.
More than 99 percent of Advanced plan users consume below 35TB of storage per purchased license. Dropbox has ensured that these teams can continue to use the storage at the time of the migration notification in addition to another 5TB of pooled storage at no extra cost for five years.