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> See, edit, create, and delete your spreadsheets in Google Drive Versus > See and download all your Google Drive files Personally I find the edit and delete
by mikelward 7y ago
> See, edit, create, and delete your spreadsheets in Google Drive
Versus
> See and download all your Google Drive files
Personally I find the edit and delete permissions from the old dialog just as scary.
But OAuth prompts always seem to ask for more than you want to give.
- Bartweiss 7y agoI agree that the new permission doesn't seem worse as much as different. I already think of Sheets/Docs/etc as basically being the filetype UIs over a core of Drive. This change shrinks "see, edit, and delete" down to "see", at the price of broadening to "all filetypes" But I can definitely see issues with the change. Most obviously, forcing users to re-grant causes alarm: they don't know about the version update so it looks like the app is trying to behave differently. And even if an equal percentage of users would grant each permission, they may not be the same users with the same use cases; your existing users are all people who agreed to the old version and may not continue to agree. Beyond that, "edit and delete" is a major permission, but not necessarily that dramatic for an app with other powerful permissions. Whereas it seems very possible someone who trusts Drive might have boring app-friendly spreadsheets, alongside much more private text documents or photos. (And yeah, across the board OAuth seems to demand way more power than apps actually want to use.)