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Hello, I am a Dropbox business admin that shares a lot of links with people outside of my organization. I'm not sure when it happened but as some point the default for sharing switched from "View...
I just had a musician I work with delete a bunch of their data. Thankfully they realised what had happened and notified me. By chance I had another copy, but normally I count on Dropbox to be that copy.
This is definitely a significant issue waiting to happen: public edit links are the highest possible risk and I have no idea why dropbox would think this is helpful. Coupled with the way that Dropbox now avoids local copies this encourages a situation where I could allow any remote party to delete the only copy of my data.
Please please please change this back.
To be clear, the desktop application has this correct: right click menu > copy dropbox link appears to create a read only link. However the android app will default to a plublic editable link which is not great and harder to spot if I'm out and about trying to help someone get access to something.