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milicent_bystandr ,

Time for some new Nextcloud servers :-D

generic_computers ,

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.

LodeMike OP ,

So don’t use it

cosmicrookie ,
@cosmicrookie@lemmy.world avatar

Isn’t this a requirement that the sharer decides?

LodeMike OP ,

Is it?

ColdWater ,
@ColdWater@lemmy.ca avatar

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

casmael ,

^porn, mainly^

pyre ,

ive always hated Dropbox so much. it’s terrible with syncing as well.

smort ,
@smort@lemmy.world avatar

Can you recommend a good service?

ColdWater ,
@ColdWater@lemmy.ca avatar

Megadb.net is pretty good

morriscox ,

“Upload is temporarly disabled for unregistered users.

Registered users can login to upload.”

There’s some irony here.

ColdWater ,
@ColdWater@lemmy.ca avatar

Name one file sharing service that allow more than 2GB without an account

Moonrise2473 ,

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)

LodeMike OP ,

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 ,

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

LodeMike OP ,

What fucking X? Where is it?

Moonrise2473 ,

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

LodeMike OP ,

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.

Luci ,
@Luci@lemmy.ca avatar

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

LodeMike OP ,

Yes

jbk ,

i wonder if yt-dlp could download files automatically from dropbox lol

lurch ,

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

I guess I’m stuck with it now 😑

LodeMike OP ,

You can sell it?

nokturne213 ,

But only if you sell it to a logged in account.

LodeMike OP ,

Ha

lurch ,

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.)

LodeMike OP ,

Aw.

slazer2au ,

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.

subignition ,
@subignition@fedia.io avatar

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.
LodeMike OP , (edited )

I am on Desktop view

subignition ,
@subignition@fedia.io avatar

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?

LodeMike OP ,

No possibility.

subignition ,
@subignition@fedia.io avatar

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

LodeMike OP ,

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

PunnyName ,

When something is free, you are the product.

LodeMike OP , (edited )

Except the vast majority of Dropbox users pay for it.

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

mindlight ,

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

beefalo ,

It's in the earnings reports: https://dropbox.gcs-web.com/financial-information/earnings-reports
18.16M paying customers in Q2 2024

Irremarkable ,
@Irremarkable@fedia.io avatar

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 ,
@subignition@fedia.io avatar

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 ,

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

friend_of_satan ,

When something is free, you are fuel in the machine that is the product.

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

Unless it’s Nextcloud?

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