- cross-posted to:
- datahoarder@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- datahoarder@lemmy.ml
Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits::Some people have taken “as much space as you need” too literally.
Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits::Some people have taken “as much space as you need” too literally.
Sounds like your buffet should plan for more crab legs to be made each time
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If there’s not then they have no business selling an unlimited supply of it.
Where I’m from services should be as advertised, legally so.
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In what world are “unlimited” and “all you can eat” synonymous with “too far”?
“Too far” implies a definite limit, which is the antonym of unlimited and all you can eat, regardless of the business’s ability to sustain it. If there is a limit, don’t advertise it as unlimited or all you can eat that’s false advertisement.
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In the marketing department apparently.
Companies should stop saying unlimited if we all agree nothing is unlimited, don’t you think?
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Lifetime guarantees are absolutely still a thing. But it’s normally for higher priced items since the quality of the average ware went down.
I agree with you that customers should become more responsible for the decisions they make. But we’ve proven time and time again (for decades if not longer) that customers are not rational actors that know everything about everything. Ads would never work if that was a thing.
But here we are. There are laws against false advertising and words have exact meanings. The fact that “unlimited” is still not false advertising baffles me. It should be.
I guess you’re okay with predatory wordings in product descriptions that target people who don’t understand that things cannot be without limits? Just because they should know better, ignoring the fact you don’t know everything? Where do you draw the line? Would you blindly trust a single drug description saying it cures cancer, though no such thing can ever exist?
No, they no longer exist bc they were never sustainable, but they knew that in the first place and sold it as “life time” bc they knew they could make money by lying to customers. Lying is bad and we all agree businesses shouldn’t lie, no?
That’s kind of the point: Companies shouldn’t be allowed to advertise anything as unlimited when it is, in fact, not.
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Companies shouldn’t be allowed to lie about services, full stop.
In what world do Nigerian princes email random people and offer to send them millions of dollars? Is it ok to scam old people and idiots because they should know better?
No, if it was unlimited, I should be able to pipe /dev/urandom to it for fun if that’s what I choose to do. What’s this about “gluttony”? They sold the service as that.
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Why are you arguing on behalf of a company? Why use the word unlimited if it is not unlimited?
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Why would you need to regulate the usage of an unlimited service? Aren’t you paying for the luxury of not having to regulate yourself to a fixed limit?
Then why advertise it as “unlimited” or “all you can eat”? That’s false advertisement.
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If the theater specifically advertised itself as a place where you could leave as much trash as you wanted, then yes, that would make it reasonable to do.
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The business advertised something to differentiate itself from the free market, it’s not the free markets fault if the business cannot sustain what it advertised
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What? How? The user is simply taking advantage of what is being offered
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Yea but all you can eat buffets have a clear limit: The stomach size of the guests. It’s not an unlimited dinner. It’s specifically limited to the amount you can eat. (Besides that, a lot of all you can eat places have a time limit of an hour or sth).
If dropbox or google offer unlimited storage, then it’s only reasonable to use that storage. After all, that’s what you signed up for. It’s not abuse if they tell me it’s okay beforehand. As long as the terms of service don’t specify a limit, there is none. And if the terms of service do specify a limit, then unlimited is false advertising. If they don’t want you to use as much data as you like, they should have called it the 20TB plan or whatever they see as reasonable.
A way to offer unlimited storage but “cripple” it enough, so users won’t fill your server quicker than you‘d like, would be to only allow a certain size of uploads per month. So you have unlimited storage but you can only upload, say, a 100GB a month. That way, it‘d take almost a year to fill up a Terabyte and you can still claim unlimited storage. That would of course also cause backlash but you could technically still offer unlimited storage.
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But there weren’t limits… it was unlimited…
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Why do you get to decide what is reasonable? I could see pro videographers shooting in 4k easily hitting that mark just doing their job. You’re acting like this was a case of trolls ruining it for normal people when you have literally zero evidence that it wasn’t people just using it how they were told it could be used. If you have bad actors abusing your system, the solution is to remove the bad actors, not punish everyone else for thinking you weren’t lying.
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Oh if only you had bothered even opening up the article. literally the second line: