“They consume thousands of times more storage than our real customers.” That’s it Dropbox explains In a statement, he stated that the behavior of a group of users led him to terminate his unlimited plan. It was because the company offered a job option that provided “as much space as needed” for up to a few days.

According to the technology company, the Dropbox Advanced plan, which will provide the benefit in question, has started to be used for purposes not foreseen in the usage policy. And since it is a growing trend, it was decided to make a drastic decision to remove it from the current offer.

Cryptocurrency mining, storage sales and more

Dropbox Advanced was intended to be an attractive option for businesses and organizations. The plan wasn’t just offered freedom of storage In addition to being aimed at corporate environments, it also has advanced management, control, security and integration capabilities. The truth is, while most people use these features, others have gone even further.

The firm says they are discovering that a growing number of customers are using these commercial subscriptions for purposes beyond running a company. The identified uses included crypto mining and resale of storage to third parties. However, according to Dropbox, this was unsustainable behavior.

Despite the company’s abusive behavior guidelines aimed at keeping the service operating under acceptable conditions, wide enforcement of these rules in the Advanced plan was a challenge. “unsustainable” solution. Therefore, the firm says it has no choice but to end this option.

As a result, anyone who joins Advanced from now on will get 15TB of shared storage per team with three active licenses. They say there is enough space to store 100 million documents, 4 million photos. In addition, each additional license will be given 5 TB of storage.

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