[marbletiles]

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.

[TeMPOraL]

> 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.

[simonbrown]

They could just change the "copy public link" to no longer give a direct link, similar to the "get link" button.

[czottmann]

That last sentence made me snicker.