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Answer: find the email address of the person the product manager of Google Drive reports to, and start sharing stuff with them. (/s: not condoning doxxing here
by cbm-vic-20 6y ago
Answer: find the email address of the person the product manager of Google Drive reports to, and start sharing stuff with them.
(/s: not condoning doxxing here)
- Overtonwindow 6y agoGenius!
- phendrenad2 6y agoBonus points for slipping your resume past the HR filters this way.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- Simulacra 6y agoI just tried this. Let's see what happens.
- dakiol 6y agoPlease share the email address (use a throwaway account) so that everyone can do it as well. Otherwise it's pointless.
- Simulacra 6y agoNo, I’m sorry I cannot do that, for me that would be doxxing. I work for a government contractor and have access to a databases of executive contact information. I think if you spent a little time with a search engine you might be able to accomplish the same thing otherwise.
- oh_sigh 6y agoSo you used your database to look up information to intentionally share files with an unwilling party? Interesting.
- aspenmayer 6y agoIf they didn’t want files to be shared with them, Google employees are empowered to fix this in ways non-employees are not. If they show up in the share list, one can only presume they consented to this, as there is a way to opt-out; there should be a menu to configure this setting as well, and that is a good point to make, but it is a different, related point.
- andai 6y agoThat sounds kind of unethical. Or is the reasoning, you could have found it on Google anyway, so you might as well do it the easy way?
- Simulacra 6y agoJust because I have access to resources that you don't doesn't mean I should do the work for you. That's an entirely new level of wokeness.
- andai 6y agoI wasn't suggesting you give me the information, but that you probably shouldn't have obtained it in that way. It might also be illegal?
- Cantbekhan 6y agoHN is not 4Chan
- dakiol 6y agoI had to Google what 4Chan means. Fair enough.
- giancarlostoro 6y agoThe sad reality is that this is the only way to ever get anywhere with Google's seemingly build it then abandon it services. You build something to move up the ladder while someone else is tossed at your ladder that is on its way crashing down at varying speeds. Now they embrace, extend, extinguish, and sometimes just shut it down cause it's not being marketed for a price at all.
- warpech 6y agoWhat's your technique of finding the name of a relevant product manager?
- neutronman 6y agoAsk someone you know at Google who is high enough up to make an intro.
- ridaj 6y agoLinkedIn
- mehrdada 6y agoLOL, you're assuming anyone gets promoted by fixing issues at Google. Wrong. You build some new shit and switch teams. Someone pitches a new project and builds from scratch. Rinse and repeat. This particular issue happens (at least that's my recollection a few years ago) frequently enough at Google that there were memes about it internally. Not sure giving additional feedback would help.
- hn_throwaway_99 6y agoThis is so glaringly apparent as a user. I think Google makes some fantastic products, but the number of "This has to be so exceedingly easy to fix, but Google just doesn't give a damn" issues I've hit is crazy. Here's one simple one: the number of volume steps in Android is only 16: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/37035441 https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/37035441 . This means that the difference between off and the lowest level volume can be pretty big if you're trying to be quiet, e.g. avoid waking someone in the same room. I almost wish they would just close issues with a "We don't give a shit" resolution status.
- mehrdada 6y agoI don't think it is as simple as a singular person or a single room saying "I don't give a shit". It's a matter of prioritization. (In this particular case, even from a UX perspective alone, you could argue that increasing friction in sharing could net-net hurt the average user.) I don't think Google (if we can anthropomorphize it at all) is blind to this general phenomenon though--it's a trade-off you have to make about what company you want to be. Is it better for you to invest resources into incremental improvements to polish the final 2% or try again and maybe make a breakthrough. You have to look it from multiple angles too: are you going to attract the most talented people giving them such gruntwork or will they quit? Is there any meaningful incremental business you could get from polishing Android (remember, polished Android is more expensive and has to compete head-on with a company whose focus is to polish and is best set up to do so). It's complicated. There's a place for multiple models.
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- WatchDog 6y agoMore likely for your google account to get suspended than for them to make a product change.
- hmmdar 6y agoDid you ever see the time where spammers could share calendar invites with you that would automatically get applied to your calendar without you accepting it... Google eventually added an option to change this behavior. Guess it will take a critical mass of complaints to get something similar for Google Drive. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-calendar-spam-is-on-the-rise-heres-how-to-stop-the-calendar-invite-spam/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-calendar-spam-is-on-the-...
- kohtatsu 6y agoI thought this would be years old but this article was written late August 2019. iCloud had a similar problem in 2016.
- tornato7 6y agoThat won't work, you should find whoever the product manager responsible for Google Drive sharing is, and start sharing files with them.