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.
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.
Except the vast majority of Dropbox users pay for it.
Edit: adjusted to how much they use it/share files.
That’s interesting. My experience is the exact opposite. Do you have any links to information on paying Dropbox customers?
It’s in the earnings reports: https://dropbox.gcs-web.com/financial-information/earnings-reports 18.16M paying customers in Q2 2024
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
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.
Megadb.net is pretty good
"Upload is temporarly disabled for unregistered users.
Registered users can login to upload."
There’s some irony here.
Isn’t this a requirement that the sharer decides?