Google drive being used to spam Android users

[JerryMungo]

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[CranialBlaze]

I’ve all but removed Google from my life. Stopped drive a few months ago, left search over a year ago, dropped the droid just over a year ago, moved my contacts yesterday, only thing left is my calendar.

Between the tracking and 30+ spam emails per day, googles becoming more annoying than useful.

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

What? I've been using drive for years and never seen this. Who have you given write permissions to your drive to upload to it?

 

[CranialBlaze]

What? I've been using drive for years and never seen this. Who have you given write permissions to your drive to upload to it?

Nothing about write access, if anyone has your email address they can share files with you, I’ve gone onto drive already and found entire random folders shared with me, you don’t even need to accept the share, it’s just there.

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

Weird

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

If you didn't receive the notification then drive notifications are off on your handset. (Good!)

Sorry for the spam hahaha

Yeah got it, that's very dodgy from google.

EDIT: and that's not even the registered log in address so seems can be shared to any address in an organisation with GDrive, wtf!

 

[backstreetboy]

Meh. Just block the person and move on with your life.

 

[backstreetboy]

Oh look! It's BSB to Google's rescue LMAO.

Couldn't care any less about Google... https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/threads/giving-google-the-middle-finger.1042733/

 

[cpu.]

I have 6 Google accounts on my phone, 3 of them for joining and providing all over when signing up to random sites.

1 for business (Gsuite), 1 for media sites (Netflix, Youtube, Music etc) and the last for other known sites.

I've never seen this. Auto-sync is on and notifications.

I do block javascript when browsing websites (do allow for trusted sites) and avoid dodgy sites that want scripts to function (if that have any relevance).

 

[backstreetboy]

I have 6 Google accounts on my phone, 3 of them for joining and providing all over when signing up to random sites.

1 for business (Gsuite), 1 for media sites (Netflix, Youtube, Music etc) and the last for other known sites.

I've never seen this. Auto-sync is on and notifications.

I do block javascript when browsing websites (do allow for trusted sites) and avoid dodgy sites that want scripts to function (if that have any relevance).

Gmail has the best spam filter. Why muck about with any of that?

 

[backstreetboy]

Spam isn't the only reason to sign up for crap with another address.

It's the reason most people give for doing crazy stuff like that.

 

[cavedog]

Yeah it happens a lot especially if your email is leaked from a site. Just block the person sharing the file with you.

 

[cpu.]

Gmail has the best spam filter. Why muck about with any of that?

It's from years ago and I just held on to my accounts.