Dropbox now requires login to download a shared file
Dropbox now requires login to download a shared file
On mobile, it prompts you to either "get the app" or "open app" with no way to click past. Screenshot won't upload.
This is worse from several months ago https://lemmy.today/post/8935690
Time for some new Nextcloud servers :-D
I hate when websites have "Apple" as their only third party login option. CloudFlare does this too.
Is it really that hard to add Google or others as well? Heck just use like Auth0 and you can add whatever logins you want without having to do much.
So don't use it
That's pretty scummy. It doesn't require login on desktop view.
Two workarounds:
- enable desktop view, then you can close the login prompt and zoom way in to find the actual download button
- easier, change
dl=0todl=1at the end of the URL and it will bypass all of that and download directly.
I am on Desktop view
Then I would question whether the file was shared correctly by the uploader. I shared a file from my Dropbox, setting it so anyone with the link could view, and was able to download it from desktop view on mobile Firefox (in incognito mode)
There is an option to require a password to view the file, is there any possibility that that was set in your case?
Shared from a paid account or from a free account?
If shared from paid account, then tomorrow I'm going to cancel our company account as this is unacceptable, we use that for sharing files in emails (we tried to use a self hosted nextcloud but customers are too dumb to figure out how to press the download button)
Paid. There may have been something that affected it but we don't know what. Can you do your own tests and report back?
Both on mobile and desktop there's a "login wall" but it can be dismissed by pressing on the X.
Still, it's a dark pattern that I don't like, tomorrow at work we will discuss alternatives as we subscribed (one single account shared between everyone) just for sending attachments with filelink using thunderbird - and with a "login wall" it no longer fits the purpose
Isn't this a requirement that the sharer decides?
Is it?
Dropdox and Mega,nz are the worst file sharing service ever made, I don't know why people still using their service and it's infuriating when I have to download from their shitty ass website
Can you recommend a good service?
Megadb.net is pretty good
ive always hated Dropbox so much. it's terrible with syncing as well.
^porn, mainly^
When something is free, you are the product.
Unless it's Nextcloud?
When something is free, you are fuel in the machine that is the product.
Are you sure the person sharing the file didn't turn on a requirement for only logged in accounts?
Yes
i wonder if yt-dlp could download files automatically from dropbox lol
Maybe I shouldn't have bought their stock a while ago... but it was so cheap 😅
I guess I'm stuck with it now 😑
You can sell it?
i would make a loss because of the tax on stock trades in my country and the fee of my banks broker ☹
but, as I mentioned it was kinda cheap, so not much money stuck in it. (i only trade shares for fun. i spend the money from my gaming budget on it, since i'm not very interested in new PC and console games any more.)