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
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
When something is free, you are the product.
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Yeah except in this case this entire complaint is bullshit because somewhere there was user error. I tested it and it worked totally fine just using mobile browser. Simply offered to get app or continue using browser.
When something is free, you are fuel in the machine that is the product.
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
^porn, mainly^
ive always hated Dropbox so much. it's terrible with syncing as well.
Can you recommend a good service?
Megadb.net is pretty good
I have used both for many years and everything has worked absolutely as intended and I’ve had no problems.
Maybe not everyone knows what they’re doing completely? Maybe many people do something wrong by mistake but don’t know it? Or do, but they’re impatient? Or they get frustrated because they don’t want to fix their problem on their own and expect the product to be totally idiot-proof?
As an IT professional for several decades, I can attest this is the problem like 80% of the time.
Isn't this a requirement that the sharer decides?
Is it?
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
Are you sure the person sharing the file didn't turn on a requirement for only logged in accounts?
Yes
Time for some new Nextcloud servers :-D
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.)
I just tested this and it works fine. I displayed in a browser window that had no authentication to the account and it merely offered me to get the app or continue with browser. No problem at all, had the file a moment later.
This is user error somewhere in the process.
P.S. free account used. P.P.S. Tested on iPhone share link from Dropbox app to clipboard, paste into two browsers: Aloha and Firefox. On both I got the standard cookie notice - which I DECLINED and it wasn’t a problem. Then the screen offered get the app or continue in browser. Chose browser and my file came up. No problem whatsoever.
OP refused to take advice and troubleshoot, instead just rants with baseless accusation. This is not a behavior I haven’t seen countless times already.