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I still prefer Dropbox because you have better control about what you upload.

Simply copy your files into ~/Dropbox/Public, right-click and choose Dropbox > Copy Public URL. Voilà!

Except that Dropbox has now discontinued their public folders in exchange for there get link everywhere (which requires you to click add to dropbox or a download button rather than direct access).

I’m not sure what you mean. The method I wrote about still seem to work.

All new accounts no longer have a public folder.

Yes - all that means is that now you can move a file into anywhere in your Dropbox, right-click it, and click (in the Nautilus plugin) "Share Link" and get a publicly available link.

The only thing that the Public folder did differently was that it did the equivalent of "Share Link" for every file in it, and also had a public index of files in the folder.

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