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Any updates on a solution yet?

It’s not a plugin, it’s part of the Idyllic theme I am using.

Thanks for the guidance. I was having a hard time pinpointing in my current theme where the size is being dictated but I found a work around by changing the layout of the archive pages and it seemed to do the trick. Thanks!

I just saw this. Thanks for the update.
I had started to assume that it was a Firefox issue but thought perhaps there was no way to get around it. I noticed that somehow my Firefox had been changed to ‘Open in Firefox’ even though I never personally selected that, maybe it happened with an update. And realized how easy it was for folks to have that setting making the download link super easy to share. I figured I’d just need to either live with it or see if I need to limit things some other way. Happy to hear that there may be a way to bypass it. Thanks again for the update!

Thanks, I did understand the difference between the 2 links but I don’t think I was communicating that very well through typing. It just seemed like before neither one would be accessible in the browser. If I were to type the download link into the browser it would force download it.

I see that it appears like it is a browser issue of some kind and not an issue with a website or plugin setting. I don’t know what changed since I personally didn’t change anything in my browser but at least I understand that now. Thank you for your time and help with this.

So if the download link (not the file url) is shared directly outside of my website, it still counts in the number of downloads, correct?
And if I wanted more control around who could access it, would then limiting a download to logged in users be the best way? or would settings in the Pro version of your plugin offer additional control?
Again, I appreciate you taking the time to review and clarify the issue.

Yes, so that link that you can see when hovering over it appears to now be accessible when I enter it into my browser, here’s a screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ih4v3428ek9m6sv/Screenshot2022-03-24-pdf-link.png?dl=0
And this is happening across several of my websites, whereas before you could not open it in your browser or share that specific link.
For this particular website, yes the downloads are in the dlm_uploads folder and the .htaccess is still there and it says “deny from all”
I’m not exactly sure about Apache vs NGINX, I believe that the hosting company I use may have switched over to NGINX based on looking things up quickly but I am not sure, is there a way to confirm that?
Essentially I don’t want that download link to be accessible if you enter it directly in the browser because I don’t want the direct links to the PDFs shared outside of our website. Does that make sense?

Thanks for the clarification.
Here’s an example of one of the PDFs.
https://www.reflectionpress.com/download/141784/
The link right to the PDF now appears to be visible and available to share as is, whereas before it would say someone didn’t have permission to access the file if they entered this link directly into the browser.
They could only access it if they clicked directly on our download button on our websites.

I’m not having an issue downloading the files. I was having an issue where it should pop-up asking whether I want to save the file and instead it opens the PDF directly in the browser making the link visible to be shared on its own. But I haven’t changed anything and “Redirect to File” is NOT checked on any of my downloads. Prior to a week or so ago the direct link to the PDFs was not accessible or visible but now clicking on them the link and PDF are accessible directly from the browser instead of forcing it to download. Are you saying that you are being prompted to pick a location for the file before it downloads or are you being redirected right to the PDF in the browser?

Sure you can find several on this page:
https://reflectionpress.com/free-stuff/we-the-people-self-publishing-resources/

but it is happening across several of my websites.