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Threlly
Collaborator | Level 8
5 years ago

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....
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Threlly's avatar
Threlly
Collaborator | Level 8

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. What information is in there ?

3. Who gets to see it (ie, is it shared in any way with, let's say, advertisers)

4. Why is it being blocked by my standard Pi Hole list, what threat could it be ?

5. Where do I turn it off if I wish to ?

 

Cheers,

Threlly

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Threlly
Collaborator | Level 8
4 years ago

Why can this NOT be turned off.

 

  • AndyBe's avatar
    AndyBe
    Helpful | Level 5
    4 years ago
    The silence speaks for itself. Already moved all my files off of Dropbox and won’t renew my subscription.
    • moebius's avatar
      moebius
      New member | Level 2
      4 years ago

      also joined this thread after finding out telemetry.dropbox.com in the top list of blocked domains, any news on how to opt-out? any news on what kind of information is shared? I'm also from Europe and i believe this could be a GDPR breach, I don't think that the fact that this telemetry is part of the EULA we accepted can supersede the GDPR obligations.

      Can you please clarify and let us know where is the opt-out button?

      thanks

      • Mark's avatar
        Mark
        Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
        4 years ago

        moebius 

        The opt out option would be to not use the service. As a Dropbox employee has said no information is stored etc. so its outside of GDPR. If you are unhappy, however, the only way to not be involved is not use the service. 

         

        Certain levels of business users can request where data is stored, but, personal users cannot. 

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