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Dropbox now requires login to download a shared file (lemmy.today)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

When something is free, you are the product.

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  • [–] [S] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Except the vast majority of Dropbox users pay for it.

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

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Yeah except in this case this entire complaint is bullshit because somewhere there was user error. I tested it and it worked totally fine just using mobile browser. Simply offered to get app or continue using browser.

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