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.

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)

When something is free, you are the product.

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

Isn't this a requirement that the sharer decides?

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.

Time for some new Nextcloud servers :-D

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

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

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

I guess I'm stuck with it now 😑

I just tested this and it works fine. I displayed in a browser window that had no authentication to the account and it merely offered me to get the app or continue with browser. No problem at all, had the file a moment later.

This is user error somewhere in the process.

P.S. free account used. P.P.S. Tested on iPhone share link from Dropbox app to clipboard, paste into two browsers: Aloha and Firefox. On both I got the standard cookie notice - which I DECLINED and it wasn’t a problem. Then the screen offered get the app or continue in browser. Chose browser and my file came up. No problem whatsoever.

OP refused to take advice and troubleshoot, instead just rants with baseless accusation. This is not a behavior I haven’t seen countless times already.