[plingbang]

For a case when file sharing is intended between individuals or small groups there's an easy solution:

Anyone who got the link should be able to delete the file.

This should deter one from using the file sharing tool as free hosting for possibly bad content. One can also build a bot that deletes every file found on public internet.

[ipaddr]

Or the link expires after a download.

[tommica]

Sucks for people that have a shitty connection

[aembleton]

The server would know when a download has completed.

[PoignardAzur]

Oh, that's pretty clever!

[giancarlostoro]

That then ruins perfectly valid use cases that someone could maliciously delete the file for.

[atoav]

But it allows sending. That might be an okay tradeoff, depending on what you're aiming for.

Anonymous file hosting isn't something I'd be keen to offer, given the nhmber of people who would happily just abuse it.

[ajsnigrutin]

But people would abuse the delete button too.

Imagine some computer work with a class of high school kids, where a teacher has to send them a file... there will be maybe three full downloads max, before someone presses the "delete" button.

[bastawhiz]

Sending files anonymously and sending files easily seems like mutually exclusive problems. If it's easy and anonymous, it's too easy to abuse. The teacher should just be using file storage that is tied to an account: it's not as though they're trying to stay hidden from their students

[terribleperson]

For a lot of use cases, simply sending the address of the deleter to whoever sent the file would suffice. Next time, just don't send it to them, or apply real-world consequences.

Sure, it wouldn't work for a large public setting... but it'd work for many other settings.