End of the road for Google Drive in Transmit

Post by kurisufag » Tue, Oct 08, 2024, 7:58 PM UTC

mullingitover wrote: post #20

quantadev wrote: post #9

Never hitch your wagon to somebody else's horse. Entire companies have been destroyed because they rely on Amazon, Google, or some other service, and then have the rug pulled. Sometimes companies have even been destroyed, notably by Amazon, for having the wrong political viewpoints. My rule of thumb is: Only use open source components, and only run my stuff on Linux. So that way I maintain full control over my stack,…

> Sometimes companies have even been destroyed, notably by Amazon, for having the wrong political viewpoints. Ok, I'll ask: what company did Amazon destroy for having the wrong political viewpoint? AWS hosts some pretty vile stuff without blinking. The last time a company made a big "woe is me, my ideas are being suppressed" claim against Amazon, it was Parler, and they weren't kicked off for their viewpoints. They w…

Post by rammer » Tue, Oct 08, 2024, 8:01 PM UTC

dewey wrote: post #26

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #24

I wrote this response to another front page HN article on a similar topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41664753 I know everyone loves to dunk on Google, and I definitely agree their communication and customer service to app developers is shite, but this change to permissions scope is a good thing. If you have full, unfettered access to large number of people's Google Drive data, you're a huge target for male…

> which I've done and are quite easy - if anything Did you read the part where it took multiple months to continue because of slow replies and non-working tooling from Google's side? It's also pretty expensive for a relatively niche app, it might be fine if you are Dropbox or a big VC funded Mail app but for smaller companies it's not "easy". > I don't think it's a bad thing that Google is enforcing some minimal secu…

Post by artooro » Tue, Oct 08, 2024, 8:03 PM UTC

resters wrote: post #18

I think if there is one "value" that stands out from Google's culture (as it is reflected onto its customers) it is tremendous lack of empathy. - Google maps appears to be designed by non-drivers. Much of hte time it is impossible to find out the name of cross streets near one's location by zooming in. Pins get added accidentally and are hard to categorize and find, there is no notion of neighborhoods, and the voice…

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Oct 08, 2024, 8:05 PM UTC

StarterPro wrote: post #34

ianlevesque wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's relevant that Transmit is a local native app . There's no hosted app exposed to the internet to hack here. Google made one lengthy process that doesn't fit this use case.

If they are connecting to Google Drive, is that not connected to the internet?

Post by dewey » Tue, Oct 08, 2024, 8:06 PM UTC

rammer wrote: post #33

dewey wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> which I've done and are quite easy - if anything Did you read the part where it took multiple months to continue because of slow replies and non-working tooling from Google's side? It's also pretty expensive for a relatively niche app, it might be fine if you are Dropbox or a big VC funded Mail app but for smaller companies it's not "easy". > I don't think it's a bad thing that Google is enforcing some minimal secu…

We've done it too, first time it was hard but it's required and recommended. It raises the bar for low effort hackers and improves security. I disagree with the op. Sorry mate go through the casa audit and get the access .