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jonb1
Explorer | Level 4
7 hours ago

Dropbox silently altering autoplay to upload photos is unacceptable

I've had the occasion to do a fresh install of dropbox on a couple of windows PCs recently, and both times I've discovered after the fact that the default windows autoplay setting was changed to enab...
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Rich
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5 hours ago
jonb1 wrote:

Dropbox silently altering autoplay to upload photos is unacceptable

Dropbox doesn't upload photos without first asking if you want to enable the feature. The only way for Camera Uploads to actually upload photos or videos if is you allow it to. The change to autoplay is simply to be able to display the prompt so you can, if you wish to, enable the automatic upload using Camera Uploads. Nothing is uploaded without you opting in.

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jonb1
Explorer | Level 4
4 hours ago

Ok, well that's significantly better. Still rather annoying to have to go back and change this setting to what it was previously manually set to though - would be preferable to be asked about any autoplay change at all.

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