<story><title>Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login</title><text>I remember I was using Google login to login to my Dropbox and in the last year or so Dropbox started asking me to access my contacts in Google. I would always deny access and still manage to successfully login. Yesterday I tried the same but with no luck. I contacted Dropbox support and this is their reply:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m afraid that is not possible at the time. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.&lt;p&gt;Interesting that they chose this route when users are getting more and more privacy-aware.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjbinx007</author><text>Ads on Amazon Prime are infuriating. And I can&amp;#x27;t help think how annoying it must be for people with disabilities.&lt;p&gt;My other bugbear are the auto playing videos on Netflix and the use of massive spoilers in episode thumbnails.&lt;p&gt;As a single consumer in a vast ocean I don&amp;#x27;t think my opinions will ever be listened to. Right now it&amp;#x27;s worth putting up with this crap as the benefits outweigh the cost but if it gets any worse I&amp;#x27;ll be unsubscribing.</text></item><item><author>KingOfCoders</author><text>Same with the ads for Amazon videos on Amazon Prime. They are ads and I don&amp;#x27;t want ads. But they don&amp;#x27;t see it that way (don&amp;#x27;t get me started on the forced watching of texts on Blue Rays).</text></item><item><author>Ensorceled</author><text>I left dropbox when they changed the full page upsell to &amp;quot;dropbox business&amp;quot; so that I couldn&amp;#x27;t easily figure out how to skip it and get on with my work.&lt;p&gt;I had a paid pro account at the time.&lt;p&gt;I actually had a conversation with a product manager; I checked the yes you can contact me  when I cancelled my account.  They simply refused to admit that an upsell was a advertisement and that disrupting my workflow on my paid, professional account for an ad was wrong.&lt;p&gt;The other interesting thing about that conversation, they could not understand how a sole proprietor would see no benefit from collaboration tools and kept making up bizarre scenarios where I could use them.&lt;p&gt;I actually asked them if they were a product manager or a salesperson at one point.&lt;p&gt;To Dropbox&amp;#x27;s credit,  that product manager didn&amp;#x27;t try to retain me,  they were genuinely trying to figure out why I had quit; they just couldn&amp;#x27;t grok the reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonpurdy</author><text>This is a great example of why I still prefer torrenting films and TV shows as opposed to using my wife’s Netflix sub: the pirated media is better!&lt;p&gt;Netflix and Hulu and competing with easier to use and more flexible pirated media, whether they like it or not. The consistency and flexibility of the VLC interface (or whatever media player you choose) is vastly better than whatever features a Netflix PM is trying to push to juice their metrics.&lt;p&gt;(I won’t even get into unskippable screens on Blu-Ray discs which are removed on the pirate version.)</text></comment>
<story><title>Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login</title><text>I remember I was using Google login to login to my Dropbox and in the last year or so Dropbox started asking me to access my contacts in Google. I would always deny access and still manage to successfully login. Yesterday I tried the same but with no luck. I contacted Dropbox support and this is their reply:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m afraid that is not possible at the time. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.&lt;p&gt;Interesting that they chose this route when users are getting more and more privacy-aware.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjbinx007</author><text>Ads on Amazon Prime are infuriating. And I can&amp;#x27;t help think how annoying it must be for people with disabilities.&lt;p&gt;My other bugbear are the auto playing videos on Netflix and the use of massive spoilers in episode thumbnails.&lt;p&gt;As a single consumer in a vast ocean I don&amp;#x27;t think my opinions will ever be listened to. Right now it&amp;#x27;s worth putting up with this crap as the benefits outweigh the cost but if it gets any worse I&amp;#x27;ll be unsubscribing.</text></item><item><author>KingOfCoders</author><text>Same with the ads for Amazon videos on Amazon Prime. They are ads and I don&amp;#x27;t want ads. But they don&amp;#x27;t see it that way (don&amp;#x27;t get me started on the forced watching of texts on Blue Rays).</text></item><item><author>Ensorceled</author><text>I left dropbox when they changed the full page upsell to &amp;quot;dropbox business&amp;quot; so that I couldn&amp;#x27;t easily figure out how to skip it and get on with my work.&lt;p&gt;I had a paid pro account at the time.&lt;p&gt;I actually had a conversation with a product manager; I checked the yes you can contact me  when I cancelled my account.  They simply refused to admit that an upsell was a advertisement and that disrupting my workflow on my paid, professional account for an ad was wrong.&lt;p&gt;The other interesting thing about that conversation, they could not understand how a sole proprietor would see no benefit from collaboration tools and kept making up bizarre scenarios where I could use them.&lt;p&gt;I actually asked them if they were a product manager or a salesperson at one point.&lt;p&gt;To Dropbox&amp;#x27;s credit,  that product manager didn&amp;#x27;t try to retain me,  they were genuinely trying to figure out why I had quit; they just couldn&amp;#x27;t grok the reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ballenf</author><text>Ads on Prime on kids content is &lt;i&gt;especially&lt;/i&gt; frustrating.&lt;p&gt;My biggest goal with kids is to help them with their focus and limit exposure to &amp;quot;infinity pools&amp;quot; of content. It&amp;#x27;s not that I have a problem with the content of the ads, it&amp;#x27;s that they train kids&amp;#x27; brains to want to switch quickly between content the moment a show has a lull.&lt;p&gt;It creates that FOMO that they might not be watching the most exciting show right now because the ad always makes the other show look way better.&lt;p&gt;Youtube is of course the epitome of this issue, although disabling the mini-player on kids content helps a little.</text></comment>