[Schlaefer]

Good idea poorly executed. Serving a html page but having a media file extension at the end is a bad idea.

For example https://www.dropbox.com/s/yq9fyyh794qvghv/IMG_0146.JPG. You can't embed it in an img-tag. Other software which tries to embed or handle it as an image fails. Even worse: non-tech people you're trying to help here have no idea why: "But it's a .jpg!".

Dropbox just put a layer between me and the data and there's no easy way around it.

[jQueryIsAwesome]

The extension thing is a valid critique; but the "layer" as you call it is just a main part of their business; remember, they are in the file sharing business and _not_ in the file hosting/CDN business.