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Dropbox trying to get people to sign up to download a file (lemmy.today)

submitted 7 months ago by LodeMike@lemmy.today to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world

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[–] ober9000@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You can modify the url to say dl=1 at the end to bypass it. It will just download the file without having to click anything on the site. Should that be something you can enable on the website instead? Sure.

[–] Pietson@kbin.social 6 points 7 months ago

It shouldn't even be something you have to enable at all, this whole thing is ridiculous.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 7 months ago

Thank you