This is an untrustworthy company whose activist policy making will lead to them banning any ideas they disagree with from their platform. Everyone should advocate for personal and business use of Google to move to other, better providers.
Google Drive could soon start locking your files
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Re: Google Drive could soon start locking your files
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
From another comment it seems like Dropbox also can snoop and remove your files. Will check SyncThing thanks!
rsync and a dedicated server at OVH is starting to sound about right.
Rsync.net has an HN member discount if you ask, they have for years. They mention it on here sometimes
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#163This whole story and most of the ensuing discussion seems to be based on a misconstrual of the Google blog post in question ( https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/12/abuse-notifi... ). It is not announcing new content restriction policies. Those have already been in place. What's new are the user notifications: Not new: "When a Google Drive file is identified as violating Google's Terms of Service or program…
I have seen new notifications recently when moving dumb stuff (old downloads?) around, so the new error message stuff tracks.
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
Recently I have discovered that google has nuked hundreds of North Korean videos. This upsets me as needless destruction of the historical record. I wonder how people would feel if something like google was around after world war II and censored hundreds of videos of nazi atrocities. It is wrong for a public forum like Youtube or public resource like google drive to restrict content based on subject matter with very…
It's never too late to join the digital hoarding initiative.
Well it kind of is too late when the historical videos are pulled down and you do not have another source besides Youtube. I am sure that academic and even possibly open source intelligence researchers are similarly frustrated assuming they did not all download the videos many of which had been on the platform for many years.
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#165I will never forget that the Christchurch shooting video was automatically deleted from users' PRIVATE Google Drive and Dropbox - no warnings were given and no explanation was presented.
This is probably the worst example to use.
It is like arguing against capital punishment using Ted Bundy's case as example. Generally that works the other way with most people and that's the kind of person they enthusiastically support the state murdering.
Similarly the reaction of most people to Google removing that video is going to be "good" and you're going to have a very uphill battle convincing them otherwise, and you're probably going to lose.
If you talk about university researchers that study pornography and Google nuking their research or their ability to share their research with other institutions, you'd probably make more headway.
It is only on a site like HN where the most upvoted commment is "OMG they deleted practically the worst video imaginable from a mass shooting incident can you believe those fascists?" and everyone votes it up to the top.
The HN echo chamber bubble is real.
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#166I've been a Google Fi customer for 6 or 7 years now and what constantly scares the hell out of me is the subreddit where about every 3-6 months you see someone saying: "Google Fi did me wrong, so I reversed the charges on CC - now my entire Google account is locked / all photos / all files in drive" This seems... like it's going to get regulated soon. Just going to take blocking the wrong account some day and boom, h…
Except wouldn’t that wrong account would get unblocked quickly enough? So not change. Amazon does the same thing with [too many] chargebacks.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given that a search engine needs to scrape the whole web to exist, I can't understand how they can stand against a user scraping unrelated third-parties, like it's some sort of grand evil they need to stand up against. Talk about a pot calling the kettle black. I can't believe they put that in their terms. For future reference: https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en#suspending-access
Scraping is one, publishing scraped content for SEO is another.
Google is publishing the content on the SE. That is one level up!
Re: Google Drive could soon start locking your files
#168A pirate movie I had was 'locked' on Drive, this happened year ago.
I opened a hex editor, changed a random byte, re-uploaded and it worked fine.
This is a misunderstanding, as per other comments. This is old news not 'start soon'
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#169Maybe give 'yandex disk' a try?
Re: Google Drive could soon start locking your files
#170I will never forget that the Christchurch shooting video was automatically deleted from users' PRIVATE Google Drive and Dropbox - no warnings were given and no explanation was presented.
This is probably the worst example to use. It is like arguing against capital punishment using Ted Bundy's case as example. Generally that works the other way with most people and that's the kind of person they enthusiastically support the state murdering. Similarly the reaction of most people to Google removing that video is going to be "good" and you're going to have a very uphill battle convincing them otherwise,…
I think the main point of your comment is insightful. The final two sentences are distracting and unnecessary. How about deleting them?