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Any reason why the marketing department would do it?

• bonaldi 14y ago
  It drives recipients to the Dropbox website. Eg, right now I can put an image file in my /public, get the link and embed it in an img src tag without the anyone else ever having to know it's on Dropbox. This way, I can't do that. I can make a clickable link and paste that. Then people have to click to see the picture on the Dropbox website. Where Dropbox can constructively engage them in a dynamic exciting conversation.
  • czottmann 14y ago
    That last sentence made me snicker.
  • simonbrown 14y ago
    They could just change the "copy public link" to no longer give a direct link, similar to the "get link" button.
  • TeMPOraL 14y ago
    > Eg, right now I can put an image file in my /public, get the link and embed it in an img src tag without the anyone else ever having to know it's on Dropbox. > This way, I can't do that. And it sucks. Embedding public/ images on university discussion group was one of my primary uses of Dropbox and I would have never ever suspected that of all the features, they would phase this one.