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Pro tip: Google Drive flagged my floor layout diagram as 'sensitive content' about 8 months back
Used to just upload all my job sketches to Drive without a second thought, but after they hit me with a notice about 'restricted material' for a basic flooring grid with arrows, I switched to encrypting everything before uploading. Has anyone else had their work files randomly flagged by these services?
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taylor_flores1mo ago
Totally feel your pain on this one, it's a real hassle.
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roberts.jordan1mo ago
Wait, they flagged a pencil sketch of a garden shed? That's wild. I mean, I can't believe a rough scan with straight lines and arrows set off their spam or inappropriate content alerts. I've had some weird stuff get caught in Google's filters before, but that feels like a totally new level of nonsense. It's like they trained their bots to panic at anything that looks vaguely technical. Makes you wonder what else they're silently junking without us knowing. Honestly, it's kind of ridiculous how jumpy their system is.
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king.kevin1mo ago
Yeah, did they give you any actual reason why or just a generic warning? I had a PDF of a garden shed blueprint get flagged once. Was just a rough pencil sketch I scanned, and Google called it "inappropriate content." Makes zero sense. Their algorithms are way too jumpy. They flag anything with straight lines and arrows like it's some kind of spy blueprint.
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