If you do use a Dropbox referral website, let us know how you get on in the comments section. Others are but I have yet to try one, purely because I already have plenty enough storage. These sites come and go as some referral links I was sent are no longer working.
I haven’t tried them personally but have talked to people online who have earned a lot of free storage from them. There are a few Dropbox referral services on the internet that allows you to quickly gather extra storage. So even if you don’t get any more, it is still something you should do. Whether they did get round to this or not, enabling two-factor authentication will keep what storage you do have secure.
Worth watching though if you want a bit of a challenge in return for free storage.ĭropbox hinted a little while ago that they were going to reward Dropbox users with extra space if they took measures to keep their accounts secure. These are well worth looking out for but I have no idea of their frequency or whether they give out anything like the kind of storage they used to. I completed one back in 2012, Dropquest I think it was that gave me something like 10GB. Some can offer anything up to 15GB of space. Prizes vary depending on the difficulty of the challenge and how long it takes. These range from completing a browser game to solving puzzles. Dropbox Challenges – 15GBĭropbox Challenges are hosted regularly and are announced on the Dropbox blog. You never know, they might take your suggestions or criticisms on board and do something about them. While the company is obviously looking for the love, if you have a critique, make it constructive and you still get your free space. Visit this page and select ‘Tell us why you love Dropbox’. You don’t have to write an essay but as long as you express yourself well you’ll be given more space. Tell Dropbox how much you like them and offer constructive feedback to earn 125MB of free Dropbox space. I stopped watching when he had earned his first 4GB but he assured me that he did the whole 32 like that. I know he didn’t use the usual disposable emails, which may have been why it works neither of us was quite sure. He loaded it all up, joined Dropbox from the machine using a disposable email account, rebooted and repeated using a different email account. A work colleague of mine did it with his work computer, VirtualBox and a copy of Mint Linux. I have seen the virtual machine trick work first hand. Worth the effort for a couple of extra GB of storage space I would say! We aren’t sure whether the company checks for cookies or IP address but there are ways around both, VPN and virtual machines for example. In case you are thinking about setting up 32 accounts for yourself, Dropbox does check. Once the person joins up your storage is increased accordingly. It is a simple process and involves sending out a specific referral link. Just follow these referral instructions to earn the space. That’s a potential of an extra 16GB of storage space. Invite your friends to Dropbox and earn 500MB for each one that joins up to a maximum of 32 friends. Invite friends to Dropbox – 500MB to 16GB I haven’t seen or heard anything about this offer for a couple of years so if you know anything about this one, let us know. There was an offer to earn a further 125MB if you sent a tweet to Dropbox or about Dropbox. Plus, you get to find out when Dropbox runs special offers and challenges. So far though, they are less spammy than most companies so while it is a compromise, it isn’t too annoying. Joining both Facebook and Twitter to your Dropbox will of course mean you see updates and stuff from Dropbox. It does means your timeline featuring ‘news’ from Dropbox but it’s a small price to pay for an extra 250MB. You can double that if you follow Dropbox from your Twitter account. The same as Facebook, link the two social media accounts and earn more storage. Connect Twitter to Dropbox – 125MBĬonnect Twitter to Dropbox and score another 125MB of storage. It isn’t much, but considering you don’t actually have to do anything for it, it’s a win win. Link Facebook to Dropbox and give it the access it asks for an in return for that loss of privacy, you are rewarded with extra storage. Connect Facebook to Dropbox – 125MBĬonnect Facebook to Dropbox and you earn a fast 125MB of free Dropbox space. While you will likely know most of it anyway, it only takes a couple minutes and rewards you with an extra 250MB of space.
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