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“Your File May Violate Google Drive's Terms of Service”

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Re: “Your File May Violate Google Drive's Terms of Service”

#11

Can you programmatically create a set of sheets that each exclude one vendor to see which one doesn't get flagged and identify the culprit?

Because if more than one vendor causes the problem, you have only skimmed off a minimum of possibilities.

You can recursively bi or tri-partition them, and the amount of documents you will have to create are only proportional to the number of compromised vendors multiplied by the log of the number of links.

Re: “Your File May Violate Google Drive's Terms of Service”

#12

Can you programmatically create a set of sheets that each exclude one vendor to see which one doesn't get flagged and identify the culprit?

That's extremely bot-like behavior and likely to turn the warning into a suspension.

Do not do this.

Re: “Your File May Violate Google Drive's Terms of Service”

#13
post #9

You could bisect the sheet. Bisection would be fastest algorithm to identify the "bug". Bisection would be to split the sheet into half and half into new files. Split the offending sheet further and so no on until you identify the offending entry. This method should work even if more than one vendor/ row has a problem - you bisect the parts which are bad and keep doing it until there is only one record. Note: This as…

> Important Note: Your ToS violation notice may become a suspension if more than one violation is tagged to your account.

Given the near weekly “My account was suspended without recourse and I lost everything” HN articles, surely OP is not using their main, personal Google account that they are dependent on for things like E-mail, right? Right??

Be careful and have a backup plan.

Re: “Your File May Violate Google Drive's Terms of Service”

#14
post #9

You could bisect the sheet. Bisection would be fastest algorithm to identify the "bug". Bisection would be to split the sheet into half and half into new files. Split the offending sheet further and so no on until you identify the offending entry. This method should work even if more than one vendor/ row has a problem - you bisect the parts which are bad and keep doing it until there is only one record. Note: This as…

> Important Note: Your ToS violation notice may become a suspension if more than one violation is tagged to your account. Given the near weekly “My account was suspended without recourse and I lost everything” HN articles, surely OP is not using their main, personal Google account that they are dependent on for things like E-mail, right? Right?? Be careful and have a backup plan.

> surely OP is not using their main, personal Google account that they are dependent on for things like E-mail

If you can accidentally have a file that violates TOS, surely you can also accidentally send an email that violates TOS.

Re: “Your File May Violate Google Drive's Terms of Service”

#16
> how TF is that my fault, such that it translates to a ToS violation, Google?

Because ToS violating links are against the ToS regardless of your intent.

It doesn’t appear that they’re shutting down your account. It says people you’ve shared the link with will receive a warning.

Re: “Your File May Violate Google Drive's Terms of Service”

#17

> how TF is that my fault, such that it translates to a ToS violation, Google? Because ToS violating links are against the ToS regardless of your intent. It doesn’t appear that they’re shutting down your account. It says people you’ve shared the link with will receive a warning.

>> It doesn’t appear that they’re shutting down your account.

Not yet. The rule of thumb is that you should expect the worst as it's a free service

Re: “Your File May Violate Google Drive's Terms of Service”

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post #9

You could bisect the sheet. Bisection would be fastest algorithm to identify the "bug". Bisection would be to split the sheet into half and half into new files. Split the offending sheet further and so no on until you identify the offending entry. This method should work even if more than one vendor/ row has a problem - you bisect the parts which are bad and keep doing it until there is only one record. Note: This as…

We've reached the point that being a Google user is like hiding from the secret police.

(I was never into Google services that required a login, and that turns out to have been a good decision.)

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