When someone sends you a file or folder to your account, you don’t have to give permission to the sender to put it in your Google Drive – it automatically shows up. The file sharing system for Google Drive is the problem. Shared on Google Drive Help ‍ How is pornography getting into Google Drive? I don’t know what else to do besides deleting my Google account.” “Every single day…I’ve tried blocking, reporting, removing, and they keep coming. I'm heavily invested in all things Google, but this may prompt a family reevaluation. I had no idea I could receive anything via Google Drive from someone I didn't know until this happened. There has to be a way to stop/block this kind of thing.

It's only been two so far, but it's extremely aggravating, and from what others are sharing, I doubt I've seen the last of it. “I've had Google Drive for years, and only in the last month or two started getting these porn spam PDFs shared to me. Google: please help - this sucks in the age of daily screen sharing video calls - makes us all look very bad.' Seeing that other users are posting the same thing elsewhere, but wanted to call this out as 'blocking spam files' as opposed to 'restricting sharing' to get the correct resources working on it. There is no way to prevent this from happening in advance - only to report abuse afterwards. It will automatically show up in my drive, and show a preview of the document's image. “Getting unsolicited and sexually explicit spam files shared with me every day now. On the Google Drive Help forum a search for “Google Drive” and “spam,” yields many threads devoted to Google Drive’s pornography problem. What are people reporting about Google Drive? It’s a useful tool for both work and school. It allows you to store files in the cloud (online rather than using your local hard drive), share files with others for editing, and synchronize files across all your devices. Google Drive is an online file storage service created by Google.

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