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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...
Should default to View -- although would be nice if you could set up in your settings (profile) whether you want to "change default to Edit" when sharing a file so if you're always sharing in Edit mode, you could easily do it.