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> 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.

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

That last sentence made me snicker.