My dealings with sharing anything via Google were very limited, but basically I kept a public Google Docs spreadsheet documenting various unofficial video game remakes, until they told me they marked it for deletion because of "malicious content", so I decided to play safe and just deleted that file myself.

Naturally, I never used Google Docs again to share anything since then.

Google drive is not private ..nothing Google based is private... Google is not your friend... Google is in the business of selling your data and pushing adds.

Now repeat the above till its burned into your brain and realize why Google is hated and NO-ONE should be solely using their products or services for anything critical or sensitive, especially Gmail.

I personally have purged as much of Google from my life as I can, its unfortunate that you cant get rid of them entirely due to how integrated they have become.

Google is like a disease from which there is no true escape or cure so I only use them as a burner email that I direct any and all trash to.

I've never had a google account, and while I might miss out on things now and then, I still feel that I'm better off out of their ecosystem.

Robbbert wrote on 2025-06-11, 23:47:

I've never had a google account, and while I might miss out on things now and then, I still feel that I'm better off out of their ecosystem.

Google Docs/Drive is incredibly useful for online editing.

When i first saw docs i thought too good to be true but having collab features it was amazing. Now I realize those features could be the death of docs. Yea your better off using offline editors like libreoffice or better yet spin up your own onlyoffice instance.

MrFlibble wrote on 2025-06-11, 21:24:

My dealings with sharing anything via Google were very limited, but basically I kept a public Google Docs spreadsheet documenting various unofficial video game remakes, until they told me they marked it for deletion because of "malicious content", so I decided to play safe and just deleted that file myself.

Naturally, I never used Google Docs again to share anything since then.

i look up games that are dead and i see what you mean by suspicious links
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1at1k7 … of=true&sd=true

twiz11 wrote on 2025-06-11, 17:05:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9zU00_I_HY

This sucks but it highlights why storing all your eggs in one basket is a bad idea

The only way google notices anything is if they get a lawsuit and a summons .

Pretty stupid state of affairs that even an affiliate can’t just directly contact them and they automate ruining lives without context.

Good luck with the getting-a-human thing. The most human contact i've seen occur is when a popular tweet is addressing @TeamYoutube, but that was the 2010s....

When Stadia tried to be a thing, Relogic was locked out of their google account so they were stuck with no choice but to cancel the stadia version of Terraria.

rmay635703 wrote on Yesterday, 02:39:

The only way google notices anything is if they get a lawsuit and a summons .

Pretty stupid state of affairs that even an affiliate can’t just directly contact them and they automate ruining lives without context.

Twitch is worse, not only is there nobody at the driver seat... the "moderation" is highly AI and algorithmically driven, and this has been easily gamed by troll brigades to get people perma-banned off the platform for things they haven't even done.

My girlfriend (MarisaTheMagician) got perma-banned for "violent hate speech" and had not only her appeal rejected within seconds of sending it, but also had her "request for reinstatement" denied within seconds of also sending that. The canned responses outright lie to having any actual review occur. Nobody actually human and impartial is actually reviewing these things.

It's why I killed all of my Twitch channel's highlights and clips and I don't really stream on it anymore.

From what I understand, the person in the headline story uploaded a bunch of stuff to their Google Drive, and got blocked for allegedly "harmful content" having been found there. I suppose this means that Google is by default snooping in whatever you upload to their services? Or only when the content got shared with someone?

I have this stupid feeling that quite possibly, the AI that does this "policing" found some perfectly innocuous Spanish words that just happen to be spelled the same way as an English word considered a "slur", or something along those lines.

MrFlibble wrote on Yesterday, 11:52:

From what I understand, the person in the headline story uploaded a bunch of stuff to their Google Drive, and got blocked for allegedly "harmful content" having been found there. I suppose this means that Google is by default snooping in whatever you upload to their services? Or only when the content got shared with someone?

I have this stupid feeling that quite possibly, the AI that does this "policing" found some perfectly innocuous Spanish words that just happen to be spelled the same way as an English word considered a "slur", or something along those lines.

I had an verypolularsong.mp3 file deleted without any notification from my gdrive. It was a mobile phone recording of a friend's amateur band playing the song in their garage.
I had an .exe file deleted the same way. It was my .exe, compiled from my own source code.
So yes, content definitely gets screened to some degree.

konc wrote on Yesterday, 13:58:

I had an verypolularsong.mp3 file deleted without any notification from my gdrive. It was a mobile phone recording of a friend's amateur band playing the song in their garage.
I had an .exe file deleted the same way. It was my .exe, compiled from my own source code.
So yes, content definitely gets screened to some degree.

Why do I have this feeling that with the new built-in AI in Windows 11 and the like, it'll be the same on users' PCs an hard drives too?

MrFlibble wrote on Yesterday, 14:23:

Why do I have this feeling that with the new built-in AI in Windows 11 and the like, it'll be the same on users' PCs an hard drives too?

There is no way that will happen. If Windows started randomly deleting people's files, you'd immediately see the biggest migration to Linux desktop in history.

MrFlibble wrote on Yesterday, 14:23:

Why do I have this feeling that with the new built-in AI in Windows 11 and the like, it'll be the same on users' PCs an hard drives too?

Realistically, it should be illegal, since MS doesn't own the local storage.

System restore did cull EXEs at some point in the 00s, even if they were just downloads. That had some 'expert' "oh no big deal just install / get them again" defenses.

Alright I know you guys are angry but
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2025/06/1 … ge/84171603007/

I'm betting BGP.

I really hope he can save his channel. This is why I don't do the YouTube thing.

On a side note, by the time I finally go to Win 11, there will be tools to remove all the "AI" junk if it's still there. I'll be on 10 for quite some time yet. 😀

On the outages, came to my attention a couple hours ago when trying to use some of my online tools. I can easily see it being BGP.

StriderTR wrote on Yesterday, 21:34:

I really hope he can save his channel. This is why I don't do the YouTube thing.

On a side note, by the time I finally go to Win 11, there will be tools to remove all the "AI" junk if it's still there. I'll be on 10 for quite some time yet. 😀

On the outages, came to my attention a couple hours ago when trying to use some of my online tools. I can easily see it being BGP.

Thing is MS is integrating the AI crap so deeply into the Windows file system there isnt a good way to remove it without breaking things.

They are literally making the AI crap a dependency for explorer and other core system functions, recall is built that way to prevent people from removing it or even disabling it. That said some smart boffins have been working on getting around it but I'm not sure just how successful they will be due to the deep integration. MS also has a bad habit of patching out such work arounds with updates so workarounds may not last long.

MS and others really want this AI shit in every thing.

DosFreak wrote on Yesterday, 21:05:

Alright I know you guys are angry but
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2025/06/1 … ge/84171603007/

I'm betting BGP.

That explains why dozens of forums were “updating the site” today

Cloudshare took 45m to validate I was a human

StriderTR wrote on Yesterday, 21:34:

I really hope he can save his channel. This is why I don't do the YouTube thing.

On a side note, by the time I finally go to Win 11, there will be tools to remove all the "AI" junk if it's still there. I'll be on 10 for quite some time yet. 😀

On the outages, came to my attention a couple hours ago when trying to use some of my online tools. I can easily see it being BGP.

His channel has been restored and google actually did directly reach out.
Still sad it takes a massive campaign to get a support chat.

Trashbytes wrote on Yesterday, 22:07:

MS and others really want this AI shit in every thing.

Gotta keep pumping that AI bubble!