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What is disturbing is the reason they give for why they will do it. One thing is if the drive is specifically used for cyber attacks and other malicious operati
by Manheim 5y ago
What is disturbing is the reason they give for why they will do it. One thing is if the drive is specifically used for cyber attacks and other malicious operations over the internet, but they refer to these rules; https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505 https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505 and they are extensive to say the least. On top of that this is yet another move from Google to declare their rights to control your content and access to it if you use their service.
- Manheim 5y agosorry, maybe I misread your question. Did you mean to say that they already did this without any notice to users, and the only change now is that they will start to send notifications when they do?
- jsnell 5y agoYes, that is exactly what the blog post is saying. It has never been the case that you could use Drive to just share files in an unlimited manner. They used to notify about this in the Drive user interface. Now they will also send an email notification in addition to that.
- ehsankia 5y agoYes, this is not new. People have abused Drive to host illegal content and spam for years. They have been silently banned and removed. The fact that you rarely hear about it shows that they actually have a fairly low false-positive rate. The only change now is that the file gets unshared, you get a notification, and can try to dispute the claim. This is a strict improvement.