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Why So Much Telemetry ?
Hi All, My Pi Hole is blocking an INCREDIBLE amount of DropBox telemetry, even more than Windows telemetry, and by a large margin. So I have a few questions. 1. What is this telemetry for ? 2....
Hi Walter,
All gone quiet.
Dropbox is still siphoning unknown amounts of data from my PC to an address that Dropbox own but have not added to the list of official addresses.
Even though I have turned off telemetry & metadata being sent back to Dropbox in my settings, this is happening in the background with no control.
I'm based in the UK, so for now, still in the EU. This looks like it circumvents GDPR rules in Europe.
Do you think anybody from DropBox will respond ?
Best,
Gary
Lusil
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHey peeps, thanks for your additional reports.
If you haven't already, could you submit a ticket to our team from this link, so that they can look into this with you?
If you have any trouble creating a ticket, just give us another nudge and we'll be more than happy to send you one.
Keep us posted!
Hi,
Curious that this cannot be identified quickly.
The url and IP address belong to Dropbox.
The internal applications & security team should be able to say exactly what this telemetry is as a matter of routine.
Quite alarming that dropbox are not aware of what their own net facing interfaces are doing.
I don't need to remind anybody that this is essentially a matter of trust.
Best,
Gary
Yeah I'm really concerned about this also. Seems like a deliberate attempt to ignore what I believe to be a fair & reasonable question.
For those who may be interested Pi-hole reports;
Top Blocked Domainstelemetry.dropbox.com 1958It's currently #2 in the list after Amazon which is nothing to be proud about IMHO! :)
Bearing in mind I have not used Dropbox nor rebooted any machine it is installed on I find the amount of hits very concerning.
Should I just add it to my Blacklist? WIll this have any effect on Dropbox?
Can someone from Dropbox please step up, take ownership and at least have the common courtesy & professional integrity to reply rather than ignore please?
Thanks & kind regards,
-=Glyn=-
And in just a day the queries to the super-secret-squirrel-site has now surpassed that of Amazon!
Top Blocked DomainsDomain Hits FrequencyIf I hear nothing from Dropbox soon I'm going to consider it a bad actor and block it.
In fact I don't really use Dropbox much at all these days so I might just 'Drop' them altogether.
Such a pity I recently paid them $120 for another year...
-=Glyn=-
