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How to Use Google Drive in Linux (itsfoss.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm soon going to transition to full Kubuntu and remove Windows from my PC. I've been looking for alternatives to a lot of the stuff I use and this one was a bit problematic. Or so I thought.

I'm also going to migrate from Google to Proton at the same time and it looks like some of these tools support Proton Drive as well!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It has native support in most desktops. With that being said there are serious privacy concerns

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why do you say that? Can you elaborate?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

About what? The privacy issues or the ease of use

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Privacy issues

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It is Google

It isn't private in the least. Everything you store there and all you network metadata is being used for targeted advertising and AI training.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well yeah. Using Google is a privacy issue.

Your comment made it sound like it's a privacy concern that there's a plug-in in Gnome or KDE or that there are apps that use the Google drive API, which is not the case. It's not even code that's developed by Google.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It is still bad for privacy. You can't just enter a username and password as you need oauth