little side question, whats with these support forums that almost never have real employees answering but have community 'support specialists' that never answer the question and only tell you to use the feedback forms but beg for props on their answers. I don't get it.
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?
#42As a ______ also affected by this issue on my personal Gmail accounts, I've filed a feedback/request for this internally.
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#43The same way you get any customer service from Google: Get your post on the front page of HN. This is probably going to get fixed shockingly fast now.
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#44The 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
Google support forums are terrible. Every time there is a missing feature (I usually find it in Google Spreadsheet) or a bug, the corresponding entry in the support forum would be answered with some pretext of why said feature will never be supported.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
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,
…but closing the UX tickets apparently is.
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#46Related 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…
They have not fixed it.
I wish I could turn off the feature entirely, but I still occasionally get Russian spam events on my calendar. They also try to notify me at ~3am (fortunately I turn notifications completely off at night).
The emails themselves land in my spam folder... but no one said "hey, maybe calendar events shouldn't be created from the spam folder" at inception, so I guess it'll never be implemented.
I report them as spam when I get them, but I also discovered that I can't report calendar events as spam in the mobile app.
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#47Tangential 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.
What drives me crazy is that this will happen even if the email with the invite never hits your inbox and goes straight to spam. Outright insane to not patch that ASAP.
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#48Answer: 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)
LOL, you're assuming anyone gets promoted by fixing issues at Google. Wrong. You build some new shit and switch teams. Someone pitches a new project and builds from scratch. Rinse and repeat.
This particular issue happens (at least that's my recollection a few years ago) frequently enough at Google that there were memes about it internally. Not sure giving additional feedback would help.
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#49Related 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…
It's used not just by spammers, but by sales reps, too.
Dell recently did this to about half a dozen people on my team. 'Q2 Budget Review', which sounds official, but is really a Dell rep trying to sell you junk that magically pops up on your calendar _even if you mark their message as spam_.
Dirty way to get by executive assistants, too.
Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
#50The 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
Even better, they make it pretty impossible to manage your online storage of photos since they split it out of drive.google.com