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finid on Sept 9, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac

On the Linux side, has anybody looked at what installing Dropbox does?

I'm guessing it's not going to be different from what it does on a Mac, but it would be nice to know exactly...

lucb1e on Sept 9, 2016 | [–]

If you ctrl+f through the thread for Linux, I think I remember someone mentioning that it just runs in userspace without root.

hobarrera on Sept 9, 2016 | [–]

It runs entirely on userspace, and as non-root.

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