4 System requirements for the Dropbox appĭropbox brings files together in one central place by creating a special folder on the user's computer.On November 7, 2018, Dropbox ended support for automated sync on Linux computers with the drive formatted with file systems other than ext4. It received a five star rating in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's 2017 'Protecting Your Data From Government Requests' report. However, Dropbox has also experienced criticism and generated controversy for issues including security breaches and privacy concerns.ĭropbox has been blocked in China since 2014. Dropbox was founded in 2007 by MIT students Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi as a startup company, with initial funding from seed accelerator Y Combinator.ĭropbox has been ranked as one of the most valuable startups in the US and the world, with a valuation of over US$10 billion, and it has been described as one of Y Combinator's most successful investments to date. Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by the American company Dropbox, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software.
