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Dropbox now requires login to download a shared file (lemmy.today)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/assholedesign

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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

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Paid. There may have been something that affected it but we don't know what. Can you do your own tests and report back?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What fucking X? Where is it?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

On the top right. Maybe it's some a/b testing to see which one "converts" (=annoys) more. I don't have the "just take me to the download" link like in the other image, just the X to close the login popup

Unacceptable IMHO, I just want to give my clients an easy link to download the huge files I'm sending them without ads or tricks. With this wall many users will get confused and create a new account

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah it's gotta be A-B testing. Switching to dl=1 just returned a passive-aggressive "Hmm that doesn't look right" page. I didn't check the error code because mobile.