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

submitted 3 months ago by cyborganism@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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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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[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago

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

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago

Why do you say that? Can you elaborate?

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

About what? The privacy issues or the ease of use

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

Privacy issues

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

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

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