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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?

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Post by toss1 »

square_usual wrote: post #249
toss1 wrote: post #213

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Another lovely Google feature that lasted for about 10sec. after I discovered it: Booked a flight, got the receipt through Gmail. Google then auto-populated my calendar with the flights - fine. They also populated it with a hotel reservation, and a link saying I hadn't yet confirmed the reservation for Hilton. I was going to stay with family, w/no intention of staying in a hotel. I couldn't believe the blatant hijack…

This must be fairly recent, because about a year ago I bought tickets, got a receipt in my gmail, and it didn't try to upsell me a hotel.

Actually, it was probably five years ago

I lambasted them for it and instantly cancelled all such features, which are otherwise potentially quite helpful.

I hope this means that enough others had the same reaction that they quit that nonsense.

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Post by zerocrates »

toss1 wrote: post #280
ojosilva wrote: post #259

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In my experience that's what happened. Some ad text on the bottom of the email got picked up (ie "hotels available during your trip"). It had "hotel" and a date range. That's all a faulty Google AI needs to create a hotel stay event. In fact I'd adventure to say this is an exploit by the airline upsell team, not Google.

My first thought was that it was from something like an airline/travel upsell team that somehow sneaked through, but my interaction w/Google convinced me otherwise (sorry I don't recall all the details, as it was years ago). Google definitely made clear that if I wanted to accept them auto-populating my calendar with the flights in my email, I also had to accept the fake hotel bookings and lying "...confirm?" message…

It just feels more likely to me that the answer you got ("you just need to turn off this feature totally to avoid this") didn't mean Google was using it themselves to generate that "ad," but that it was someone basically taking advantage of the existence of the mail-to-calendar feature unscrupulously, and Google didn't have any controls you could use to stop that other than just turning the feature off.

That's still Google's fault to a degree, since that's pretty predictable behavior they'd need to account for, but it wouldn't be the major intrusion that you're interpreting it as.

Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?

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Post by kstrauser »

toast0 wrote: post #257
kstrauser wrote: post #57

My adventures last week: Question: We have a G Suite Enterprise account. We used to share documents with a contractor. They no longer contract with us. How do we remove that contractor from every shared document. Answer 1: Run this report to get a list of every document shared with them. Manually visit each document and un-share it. Answer 2: Our API docs are at... FFS, Google. I really don't think this is that unusu…

G Suite says Enterprise but doesn't actually do it. For years, you had to turn of 2fa enforcement for the whole org, or do janky hacks with special groups and policy exceptions for groups to onboard new employees because they hadn't gotten around to a first time login flow that had a mandatory 2fa enrollment; instead they'd just prompt for the 2fa code you couldn't have setup. There's no way to merge two separate G S…

> For years, you had to turn of 2fa enforcement for the whole org, or do janky hacks with special groups and policy exceptions for groups to onboard new employees because they hadn't gotten around to a first time login flow that had a mandatory 2fa enrollment; instead they'd just prompt for the 2fa code you couldn't have setup.

That's still the case. We require 2FA, and 2FA setup on first login, but then you can't log in the first time because you don't have 2FA. We have a group we put new employees in so that they can set it up, then we remove them afterward.

Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?

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Post by kstrauser »

techntoke wrote: post #205
kstrauser wrote: post #141

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Yep, we're sharing outside your domain, but that's a feature that they advertise and recommend. I've started to check GAM, but what should have been a chore in our sprint has quickly turned into a fullblown story. I'll have to find some time to waste figuring out how to do this thing that I can't believe Google doesn't have built in.

Again, did you try the shortcut listed here? https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/52093/see-all-sh... When I search to:email@here.com it shows all the documents shared with that person, then I can Ctrl+a and click "share" and remove that person from all of them at once.

I've tried, but I don't have the option to select all.

Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?

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Post by techntoke »

kstrauser wrote: post #284
techntoke wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Again, did you try the shortcut listed here? https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/52093/see-all-sh... When I search to:email@here.com it shows all the documents shared with that person, then I can Ctrl+a and click "share" and remove that person from all of them at once.

I've tried, but I don't have the option to select all.

Ctrl+a is the keyboard shortcut.

Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?

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Post by toast0 »

kstrauser wrote: post #283
toast0 wrote: post #257

Earlier quoted context omitted.

G Suite says Enterprise but doesn't actually do it. For years, you had to turn of 2fa enforcement for the whole org, or do janky hacks with special groups and policy exceptions for groups to onboard new employees because they hadn't gotten around to a first time login flow that had a mandatory 2fa enrollment; instead they'd just prompt for the 2fa code you couldn't have setup. There's no way to merge two separate G S…

> For years, you had to turn of 2fa enforcement for the whole org, or do janky hacks with special groups and policy exceptions for groups to onboard new employees because they hadn't gotten around to a first time login flow that had a mandatory 2fa enrollment; instead they'd just prompt for the 2fa code you couldn't have setup. That's still the case. We require 2FA, and 2FA setup on first login, but then you can't lo…

I was pretty sure they had made this better recently. I recall being able to remove the new users group, but I'm no longer working there, so I can't verify. (Also, I didn't have to make a lot of new users in the recent past before I left, because of the merger stuff)

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Post by Cantbekhan »

dakiol wrote: post #76
Simulacra wrote: post #19

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I just tried this. Let's see what happens.

Please share the email address (use a throwaway account) so that everyone can do it as well. Otherwise it's pointless.

HN is not 4Chan

Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?

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Post by VRay »

48bb-9a7e-dc4f2 wrote: post #188
makecheck wrote: post #144

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Wasting space in Google products is comically easy too, because it’s so “integrated” that you can have crap everywhere and may or may not know how to get rid of it. I tried uploading a title image to my YouTube channel, and somehow doing so created an entire Google Photos account (even though the channel image is not a photo!). I dragged-and-dropped several replacement images because the YouTube UI for layout preview…

It goes deeper. Last time I checked I found previous uploads or deleted images in two different Picasa interfaces, one had YouTube and profile related images, even wallpapers from Gmail. The other had some of my Google Photos. I don't have an account to confirm but it's probably still there.

Wow, meanwhile Google lost all my vacation photos back in 2014 or so. It was a painful lesson, but I'm glad that all I lost was one vacation's worth of pictures, haha. Never trust a cloud

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Post by knolan »

aspenmayer wrote: post #134
knolan wrote: post #80

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This reminds me of the obnoxious know-it-all that lives under the bridge on the QNAP forums.

Do you like QNAP products? I have experience with a few Synology NASes, and was looking at QNAP’s media center NAS products, and they seem nice. It seems like QNAP has a bit more open source support, which I definitely like. Ubuntu Linux Station looks neat, like a first-party supported integrated Ubuntu Docker container? That QNAP’s web management and the device itself runs Linux under the hood is awesome; this may b…

I’ve a 10 bay system populated with 4TB drives that I use as a dumb data dump in RAID6. They’re okay systems, but as others have said they come with a lot of useless complexity. At a previous job had an 8 bay system that had a dodgy backplane that was a pain to deal with.

Re: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?

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Post by knolan »

cyclotron3k wrote: post #110
knolan wrote: post #80

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This reminds me of the obnoxious know-it-all that lives under the bridge on the QNAP forums.

I know exactly who you're referring to

I can’t imagine how a company like that would let such an individual interact with customers.
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