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ydeniro
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5 years ago

Someone can hack my shared link to download the pdf file that has been disabled download permission

Hi,   Recently, I sent a shared link of one pdf file of mine to someone.  When I created this shared link, I have disabled the download permission for this file.  However, the guy told me that he...
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Rich
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5 years ago
ydeniro wrote:

I googled around and saw some discussion on Reddit talking about this by inspecting into the source code of the dropbox page.

The simple fact is that if you can view something online, it can be downloaded. That's just how the Internet works. In fact, in order to be able to view anything online, it's downloaded to your computer (stored in your browser's cache), so there really is no way of stopping it completely. There will always be ways around it.

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