Backblaze silently redefines 'unlimited' backups and users discover it's not backing up Dropbox and OneDrive (www.tomshardware.com)

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[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 points 4 months ago

roughly six months ago, Backblaze enacted a silent change that made its backup app stop uploading local data synced to "OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, iDrive, and others."

How does it know? I assume the shittiest way, by just having a deny list of path prefixes.

[-] francisco_1844@discuss.online 2 points 4 months ago

Highly likely it is a list of folders to ignore. The alternative is much worse. If they are looking at user data to analyze patterns and type of data to decide folders to ignore.

I am a fan of backblaze, mostly their B2 storage, but this move is a bit disturbing.

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