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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”
#22Your URL is probably a positive match from this DB: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?h... You need to see which is returned from here.
None of the links in the sheet are flagged by that tool.
Re: “Your File May Violate Google Drive's Terms of Service”
#23You 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.
> 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??
"They say most wrecks happen within a mile of home, so we moved."
… whatever account I use for email is the account I use for email.
Perhaps, yes, I could abandon Google. It's just like, I'd like to spend my life living.
Sadly my personal server is down due to parts failure at the moment.
Re: “Your File May Violate Google Drive's Terms of Service”
#24Since posting, the UI has changed. Now, instead of a banner at the top saying I am "doing" "bad" "things", that's gone now. Now, if I hover over one of the links, I get a popup saying that link is bad.
At least now, I know which link is bad.
I specifically ran that link through transparency report, and it's marked as "No unsafe content found."
The domain no longer resolves. Perhaps the venue has gone out of business, I don't know.
I removed the URL from the sheet, and I now have another, fresh email saying the sheet is violating the ToS.
Re: “Your File May Violate Google Drive's Terms of Service”
#25I'd check the urls contained within against Google's Safe Browsing Site Status[0], then maybe virustotal[1] or urlscan[2]. Sucks that Google isn't more transparent in its email. [0] https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?h... [1] https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload [2] https://urlscan.io/
So I know which URL it is now, as I've gotten a different UI in Sheets now.
[0] and [2] say the allegedly bad URL is clean. [1] thinks it isn't.
Wayback has a several month gap, before which the site is fine, and after which their provider appears to have suspended them, so presumably something happened there.
But, yeah, thanks for just shooting the wrong person, Google.