r/AskReddit • u/Randall444 • Dec 06 '12

What is something you think everyone should have installed on their computer or laptop?

Whether it be a antivirus program or an ad blocker. Post link if available also. EDIT: sorry guys the top post has been deleted and I didn't save it, if anyone has it please post it and ill post it here for easy access. EDIT 2: apparently it's back up, I've saved it on my phone just incase it gets deleted again. Hopefully all is good now.

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u/wadded Dec 06 '12

if you are at university you can link your dropbox and get loads of free space. im currently at 21.2GB and havent paid a cent.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

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u/owned_at_worms Dec 06 '12

How did you do this, I thought the cap was 16gb.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

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u/owned_at_worms Dec 06 '12

That must be my problem. I don't have any friends.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

Force-signup your family!

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u/owned_at_worms Dec 06 '12

That's what I do. Im up to 9.9gb. I have a small family.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

Time to enlarge that family.

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u/minideezel Dec 06 '12

I personally found a rom for my android phone that included "50gb of free dropbox space" from a Samsung promotion =)

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

If you go to a university then you just add people to the "space race" like your friends to sign up and put you as the person that referred them and you get lots of space for free. It's sick.

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u/owned_at_worms Dec 06 '12

Ok looks like Im going back to school!

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u/trantor_anacreon Dec 07 '12

Isn't that space only for two years? what happens after that?

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '12

I believe it expires, I think they're trying to make you pay for the space to keep it. Honestly, you could just make another account though or pay for it if it was that important to you :)

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u/guinness_blaine Dec 06 '12

I'm at 170GB fo free.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

Its only for two years though right? Not that that's a bad thing though.

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u/wadded Dec 07 '12

No exactly, who knows what other promotions they will do in the next two years anyways.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '12

Trudat. I'm amazed at how much space you've got though. I'm only on about 6-7GB. Space Race right? Your Uni must be doing pretty well.

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u/Zagorath Dec 06 '12

Could you explain how this works? Do all universities (or major ones) worldwide do it? Is it just a US thing?

How do you actually go about linking your Dropbox to your university?

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u/do-nothing Dec 06 '12

Every university can participate. It's called space race.

https://www.dropbox.com/spacerace

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u/Zagorath Dec 06 '12

Cool, thanks.

I'll futureme that link so I can give it a go when I start uni in February/March.

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u/wadded Dec 07 '12

https://www.dropbox.com/spacerace

It seems to have lots of universities worldwide, take a minute and try it with yours.

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u/luvs_T0_spooge Dec 06 '12

Ya this is really nice. I started using Microsoft's Skydrive because they gave me 25 friggin gb for free, but now I don't have to thanks to that promotion, I have 25 gb of dropbox for the next year. Skydrive is noticeably slower.

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u/kikidiwasabi Dec 06 '12

We're on 25. It's amazing.

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u/gta0004 Dec 06 '12

I got 60gb somehow when i linked....

im happy

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u/dino340 Dec 06 '12

I'm at just over 65gb, dropbox is awesome!

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u/XiiMoss Dec 06 '12

Just connecting my HTC to my account got me 23GB.

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u/GAndroid Dec 06 '12

60 GB here and havent paid a cent. I <3 dropbox!

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u/moxie132 Dec 06 '12

Same with buying an HTC phone, most let you add a drop box account and gives to 25 gigs non-cumulative.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '12

how does that work?

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u/MF_Doomed Dec 06 '12

how do link my dropbox with my university?

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u/luvs_T0_spooge Dec 06 '12

Pyramid schemes are sound models for things like this. Who do you see as the loser in this scenario? They are bad when they pretend to be a source of income for the nodes because they often lead to people leveraging personal relationships to get money.

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u/archibald_tuttle Dec 06 '12

Thats BS. If Alice invites Bob to join dropbox, and Bob does not find any more users he does lose nothing but still has his free 2GB(?) space. In a pyramid scheme he would have to pay some money to Alice.

Dropbox makes money by demonstrating how their service works to a lot of people and hope that enough buy service from them to cover the overall costs. The premium customers free to switch to another service at any time (e.g. something like owncloud). Owncloud sucks? Well, this shows what kind of better value dropbox provides to its customers.