How to Use Google Drive in Linux - eviltoast

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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    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.

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      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.

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        3 months ago

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