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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,
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 Domains
telemetry.dropbox.com 1958
It'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=-
- Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hi Threlly, GlynH, and everyone else in this thread, thanks for your patience.
Our dev team have informed us that they use telemetry.dropbox.com as a channel to receive client side logging, error reporting, and other metrics. This is listed as a trusted domain since the primary domain itself is 'dropbox.com'.
The Pi-Hole add-on marks ‘error reporting domains’ which is what we are gathering through that web path.
I hope this information helps to clarify matters.
- Hi Jay,
I thought I’d turned that off, nor do I want to share information that I have no control over.
How do I turn this off ?
Who is this information (in any form) shared with ?
Thanks,
Gary Again.
Issue is not resolved.
