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Upgrading Dropbox to 16gb for Free

Where there is a will (for cloud storage), there is a way (for cloud storage).

This post is a part of my blog paleontology series. I dug up and restored this post on 2025-08-11. I made corrections to a number of spelling mistakes. I've updated some links to the wayback machine when needed.

I remember how huge 16gb of cloud storage felt in 2011. If I recall, the follow year Google started upping the free storage they offered in order to compete with Drive.

After reading the article Upgrading Dropbox to 16gb for 25usd by Alain M. Lafon I realized that I had $100 in adwords credit that I had gotten for free from Google (by snail mail oddly enough). Alain had cleverly used adwords in combination with his dropbox referal link to get the referral bonus on dropbox. If you verify your edu email you will get double referral bonus (so 16 gigs instead of 8). If took me about a day to get all the referrals I needed.
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UPDATED: Since posting this Dropbox has updated so that everyone get double referal bonus, so no edu email is needed.

~Matt

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