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THANK YOU, zamnos! No wonder I couldn't find it. It was a current-events piece about a change in Instagram's TOS. Explanation here: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1150:_Instagram


But also the comic as you remembered it has a different moral from the actual comic, and would be very insulting to apply to non-paying dropbox users.

It's okay for a free service to change how they operate with a take-it-or-leave-it offer. It is not okay for a free service to invade your privacy without permission.

Additionally, all users should be able to trust Dropbox just as much as the paying users.




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