Dropbox Just Dropped One Of Its Best Lesser-Known Features
Summary
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Dropbox abandons its password manager, passwords, due to low use, focusing on basic functionalities.
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Current users are faced with a progressive stop process, ending with the deletion of user data by October 28.
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Dropbox suggests migrating to 1Password; The other options include Google Password Manager and iCloud Keychain.
Many of your applications have features you don’t even know. Dropbox, for my part, had a neat password manager. We say, however, because he is now killed.
Dropbox is SunSing its autonomous password manager, Dropbox passwords, after five years of operation. According to the company, the decision is “part of our efforts to focus on improving other features in our main product”. No specific reason has been given for the closure. There is a non -zero chance that it is because almost no one used functionality. For current users of dropbox passwords, the company has described a stop process in several phases, but it leaves a little tight window for migration to an alternative service. The process will start in a few weeks, in fact. When August 28 will take place (therefore in a little less than a month), the mobile application and the browser extension will move to a “view only” mode, and automatic functionality, which automatically fulfills the connection fields on websites and applications, will be closed.
From there, on September 11, the dedicated mobile application Dropbox Motways will stop working entirely. Users will always be able to recover their stored information, but only via the extension of the web browser. Finally, Dropbox passwords will be completely closed on October 28. All user data, including stored user names, passwords, secure notes and payment information, will be “permanently and safely deleted” from Dropbox servers.
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Dropbox Wordswats was introduced for the first time as a premium feature to pay for Dropbox Pro subscribers before being made available as free for all Dropbox users in 2021. Google and Apple have deeply integrated password managers, therefore Dropbox, providing cloud storage services, also wanted to provide additional value to its own value. However, he also tried to enter an extremely congested market, which is difficult to do unless there is an imperative reason for users to check your service on others. So he failed.
In his communication with users, Dropbox himself officially recommended migration to 1PASSWORD to replace his own password manager. Personally, I really like Bitwarden, but 1Password is also a fairly solid option. Native password managers integrated into Google Chrome (Google Password Manager) and Apple operating systems (iCloud Keychain) also remain viable alternatives if you do not want to download something else.
The right part is that all your sensitive data, if you do not act on this subject, will be permanently deleted, so you don’t have to worry about it in data violations later – Dropbox sometimes suffers.
Source: Dropbox via Engadget
