Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
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Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
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Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#2Just a simple option like "Allow just my contacts to share files with me". I lost so much time with all the spam and malware that is being sent to me just because my gmail account is so public ... :(
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#3Answer: find the email address of the person the product manager of Google Drive reports to, and start sharing stuff with them.
(/s: not condoning doxxing here)
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#4Answer: find the email address of the person the product manager of Google Drive reports to, and start sharing stuff with them. (/s: not condoning doxxing here)
Genius!
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#5> Keep getting spam shared on an account I don't use much, but keep getting notifications. Not fun when my 9 yo son is on my phone and a notification pops up that someone shared "eat my pussy baby". Google needs to address this.
Oh. That's bad.
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#6Tangential to this is that calendar/invite spam continues to be an issue as well. Want to trick someone into visiting a URL? Just send them a calendar invite and chances are they will click it.
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#7> Keep getting spam shared on an account I don't use much, but keep getting notifications. Not fun when my 9 yo son is on my phone and a notification pops up that someone shared "eat my pussy baby". Google needs to address this. Oh. That's bad.
Oh god. I got COMPLETELY derailed by this last month. My girlfriend's son was using my tablet (which is logged on my main Google account) and recently I was being victim of this, and suddenly he asked me "what's a bussy?"
I never logged my account out of an device so fast. Google needs to fix this crap.
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#8Just a simple option like "Allow just my contacts to share files with me". I lost so much time with all the spam and malware that is being sent to me just because my gmail account is so public ... :(
Spammers, scammers, and marketers are abusing every possible system to get eyeballs and it's moved beyond frustrating.
I've had to dump phone numbers due to SMS, voicemail, and phone call spam. My spam box on my e-mail address (not hosted at Google, but still) is littered with bogus calendar invites, fake invoices, file sharing attempts, and so on.
I'm a little surprised spammers aren't putting ad messages in fields that get logged in HTTP access logs just so admins will trip over them somehow.
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#9Answer: find the email address of the person the product manager of Google Drive reports to, and start sharing stuff with them. (/s: not condoning doxxing here)
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Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#10This can be so confusing for non-tech literate people too. My mother asked me to help her, saying she was hacked because there was porn in her Google Drive.
It can be really difficult for non-power users to even understand why this is happening or what to do to fix this.