Tangential 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.
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#22It seems Google simply abandon some of their products.
I've been living with another issue since 2011: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35889152
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#23This 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.
That's more of the fault of Google Drive UI being terrible and failing to differentiate mine / shared / someone else's.
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#24It’s amazing how spammers will use every single vector to send stuff to us. I suppose if the cost of sending it is so low they have nothing to lose even when the take up is very low.
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#25Related to this bug, some time ago I started getting spam on my Google Calendar. Not sure if Google ever fixed it, but basically Google would automatically add events to your calendar when you got an invite in your email. Honestly, it's a nice feature; saves a couple clicks every time I get an invite. The bug is that it applied even if the email was spam. There was no workaround, other than disabling the feature completely. Quite a pain. And yes, just like this bug, you'd get lovely "eat my pussy" events popping up on your calendar and reminders.
Thanks Google, you're the best /s
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#26I’ve been pondering migrating away from Dropbox. I guess I won’t migrate to Google Drive then.
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#27I'll tweet Jeff Dean and see what happens.
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#28The mods on the support forums who make it sound like basic functionality missing from their product is your own fault for not submitting some kind of ticket deserve the gaslighting prize of the year for each of the last 5 years. They don't even have an option to show you how much space folders take up, when they charge you based on space usage. https://support.google.com/drive/thread/3970069?hl=en
> They don't even have an option to show you how much space folders take up, when they charge you based on space usage.
iirc unlike Dropbox, files shared with you do not count against your quota on Google Drive as long as you don't add it to your drive.
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#29Answer: 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)
The sad reality is that this is the only way to ever get anywhere with Google's seemingly build it then abandon it services. You build something to move up the ladder while someone else is tossed at your ladder that is on its way crashing down at varying speeds.
Now they embrace, extend, extinguish, and sometimes just shut it down cause it's not being marketed for a price at all.
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#30The mods on the support forums who make it sound like basic functionality missing from their product is your own fault for not submitting some kind of ticket deserve the gaslighting prize of the year for each of the last 5 years. They don't even have an option to show you how much space folders take up, when they charge you based on space usage. https://support.google.com/drive/thread/3970069?hl=en
Just shows how little talent there really is at Google. Everyone who can code are now on the doodle team.