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I typically set my browser to clear cookies every session. Is there any provision for such a scenario? The authentication flow seems to suggest that if the browser was closed and cookies cleared, the user would not be allowed to install Dropbox.


> If any of our conditions isn’t met, we abort auto sign-in and ask the user to log in with an email and password.

In this case, the install succeeds and only auto sign-in fails.


The ultimate fallback always is to revert to letting user sign in manually. Installation success doesn't depend on cookies, so that should be just fine.




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