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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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

submitted 10 months ago by LodeMike to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world

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[–] ober9000@lemmy.world 12 points 10 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 10 months ago

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

[–] LodeMike 3 points 10 months ago

Thank you