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smartcooky
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

Why are the words "Simplify your Life" being added to my Dropbox links

Just as the subject implies.

 

I right click on a folder or file, choose "Copy Dropbox link" and when I paste it into a forum, it looks OK, but when I submit the post, it has my link with the words "Simplify your Life" added to the link. Other users of the forum find this suspicious and are often reluctant to click on these links.

 

How can I prevent this rude, spammy behaviour?

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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
    3 years ago
    konnektor wrote:

    Has anyone found out where this is coming from?

    The site you're pasting it in to is likely reading the content at the link and pulling a page title or header. Dropbox has no control over this.

  • konnektor's avatar
    konnektor
    Helpful | Level 5
    3 years ago

    I'm getting this as well - no indication except in the copied link file title.

     

    Has anyone found out where this is coming from?

     

     

  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
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    5 years ago

    Dropbox doesnt add that to links so it sounds to me like some third party is doing it (maybe the forum software?). 

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