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The Dropbox desktop application will no longer be supported for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 on October 22nd
Congratulations Dropbox! You've just put the nail in the coffin of all W7 users who prefer not to be spied on and constantly used for data scraping!
Well done. If the constant scaremonger naggi...
Well the day has finally come when the tray icon got a great big red alert thing on it saying it was no longer going to work in my Windows 7 OS because… enshïtification of everything these days. Everyone knows there's no technical reason why it had to stop working. Indeed, if the owners of Dropbox actually wanted it to keep working, it would, without any modification work required at all. The truth is that they've actually had to engineer the code to make it stop working and they've done that to hold to ransom all the users who trusted them to keep a useful utility working. Now they want the money and so the enshïtifcation has begun.
The 'workaround' everyone is asking for is to ditch Dropbox entirely and start a free account with Sync instead. Sync is everything Dropbox used to be before they went all corporate and spamming their users to get them to upgrade and then now finally killing them off entirely with enforced obsolescence of the software. Sync is free, it works on Windows 7, they don't spam their users and it has iOS apps that work just as seemlessly as the Dropbox one used to. Best of all, Sync offers even more free storage space than Dropbox ever did too, so there really is no excuse not to ditch Dropbox entirely. Oh and Sync doesn't try to force itself into scanning all newly connected USD drives you plug into your computer either, so that's a nice little bonus too.
Deleting Dropbox has been a delight. I just swapped everything I had stored in Dropbox straight over to Sync and it's up and running again completely seemlessly. Bye bye Dropbox!
I haven't received that notification, and I just made a change to a file on my Windows 7 machine and checked that my Windows 11 laptop picked it up, which it did.
Sync is not free for the amount of storage space I need, but I'm happy to pay $8 a month or whatever to know my storage is safe.
When the time comes I need to move I will certainly consider it.
I recently had an issue of Firefox not giving me any sound now on Windows 7. For what is supposed to be a "frozen" version, they insist on keep changing these things, including Spotify teling me my operating system is out of date. These companies trying to control what I do on my home computer And the reason I like Windows 7 is it never crashes and I don't get restarts when I didn't ask for them.
