Didn't google just make everyone jump through hoops on Youtube to ensure all content was safe for children because of COPPA? Does this violate that new law?
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?
#32Related 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 comp…
This hit a bunch of us about a year ago, maybe two years, I forget. It was incredibly annoying and made me completely stop relying on gmail for calendar stuff.
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#33Related 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 comp…
I used to get these in Russian (I don't speak Russian and have no links with Russia). The worst part was I couldn't delete them from the Android app, which is like probably everyone else the only place I ever see my Google calendar. The functionality to delete them was hidden at calendar.google.com or somewhere I'd never had occasion to use. I don't get this spam any more, so I guess Google fixed it at some level.
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#34Is it possible that someone could share files with someone that is elicit content in order to get them in trouble or to target children's accounts? Seems...like a problem.
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#35Related 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 comp…
I'm actually getting this spam now (started a couple months ago). Would love advice on how to get rid of it!
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#36Answer: 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)
What's your technique of finding the name of a relevant product manager?
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#37Just 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…
Well there is spamming build logs. If you have used npm enough, you've probably seen someone asking for a job when you run npm i.
This spam is possible from the console.log output of npm packages as they get installed.
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#38Answer: 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)
What's your technique of finding the name of a relevant product manager?
Ask someone you know at Google who is high enough up to make an intro.
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#39The 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.
Keeping an operation like Google going forward at that scale going is not a job for talentless hacks,
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#40It’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.
Not only that but a new vector is like a gold rush. It's a virus infected a new host that hasn't developed an immune response.
A new vector (probably) hasn't built hardness yet against spam, like for example email with apps like Gmail filtering out most spam and SPF etc.
If you start a forum, you expect spam, and there will be tools in the forum software to deal with it. But something new that isn't a traditional place to spam may be caught off guard.