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

  • gen/Eric Computers@lemmy.zipEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • subignition@fedia.io
    611·
    3 days ago

    That’s pretty scummy. It doesn’t require login on desktop view.

    Two workarounds:

    1. enable desktop view, then you can close the login prompt and zoom way in to find the actual download button
    2. easier, change dl=0 to dl=1 at the end of the URL and it will bypass all of that and download directly.
      • subignition@fedia.io
        111·
        3 days ago

        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?

          • subignition@fedia.io
            41·
            3 days ago

            Only other thing I can think of is the specific mobile device/browser combo isn’t properly requesting the desktop site. Or there is somehow an entirely separate sharing option that is functioning differently

            • Kairos@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
              11·
              3 days ago

              It is requesting it properly. Mobile site only gives me option to download or open app.

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
    421·
    3 days ago

    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)

    • Kairos@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
      22·
      3 days ago

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

      • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
        16·
        2 days ago

        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

          • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
            8·
            2 days ago

            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

            • Kairos@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
              5·
              2 days 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.

  • ColdWater@lemmy.caEnglish
    14·
    3 days ago

    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

    • Kairos@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
      22·
      3 days ago

      Except the vast majority of Dropbox users pay for it.

      Edit: adjusted to how much they use it/share files.

      • mindlight@lemm.eeEnglish
        51·
        3 days ago

        That’s interesting. My experience is the exact opposite. Do you have any links to information on paying Dropbox customers?

          • Irremarkable@fedia.io
            7·
            3 days ago

            Dropbox’s own website claims they have >700M users.

            18M paying customers is a lot (and I wouldn’t be surprised if in terms of percentage of data stored paying customers are the majority), but nowhere near a vast majority.

            • subignition@fedia.io
              2·
              3 days ago

              If you were to look at the average cloud storage usage per user, split by free or paid, I think you would find that free users are using rather less space in total than you’d expect

              But I agree, I did some of their cute ARG stuff for extra space when they were still acting like a startup and otherwise haven’t paid them a cent.

        • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          Free usage is still limited to 2gb unless you got a lot of referrals. It was a lot in 2008, but it’s difficult to daily use that in 2024

  • Luci@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    Are you sure the person sharing the file didn’t turn on a requirement for only logged in accounts?

  • lurch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    Maybe I shouldn’t have bought their stock a while ago… but it was so cheap 😅

    I guess I’m stuck with it now 😑

      • lurch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        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.)

        • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          Depending on your country you might be able to do the following:

          Use the loss to offset capital gains on other stocks you sell
          Deduct the brokers fees from your taxable income.