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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/[email protected]

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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] 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I am on Desktop view

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No possibility.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

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