[bonobo]

I also have been receiving lots of these lately. I don't understand why "blocking everyone that's not in your contact list" is not a feature.

This thread below on Google Drive Help Center was closed with a response that you can now block a specific user — which is useless against a horde of bots.

https://support.google.com/drive/thread/58636526/how-to-bloc...

[moonshinefe]

Yep, I even tried to ask a very similar question with the very first sentence outlining I was aware you could block singular users but it's useless against hordes of bots, same response: https://support.google.com/drive/thread/142587006?hl=en

[turnerc]

It's the best response we have at the moment, please send in-product feedback and report such files.

[lupire]

Why? That just wastes everyone time. It clearly doesn't help solve the problem.

[cbetti]

Are you more interested in fixing a process or fixing the problem?

Sending in-product feedback certainly could work because it's more likely to be seen by product management as it continues to roll in.

Support-driven product change requests are well intentioned but generally break down as a process internally. The working knowledge base and incentives are not properly aligned.

[krageon]

> Sending in-product feedback certainly could work

If it could work, we would have seen that happening. We have not, so we must assume it can't. Thus, asking to "send feedback in-product" is just a way to waste everyone's time. You avoid the negative stigma that is associated with knowing a problem exists and ignoring it, without having to undertake any concrete action. Corporate spin at it's finest.

[maps7]

I'm getting these recently too as Android notifications. It's very annoying and could be very unprofessional or hard-to-explain if one came in at the wrong time.

[hn_throwaway_99]

Me too, although FWIW on Android I opened Drive, then to "Settings" under the hamburger menu, then "Notification Settings", then I unchecked the "Shared items" notifications.

That may not work for you if you want shared item notifications, but I already get bombarded by a million different notifications for everything (sometimes I hate the modern world) and I sure as hell don't want shared item notifications - if something is important enough that I should read it, the person who shared it to me will email me about it.

[mrjin]

I've been asking blocking feature since Gmail started inviting for beta testing. I'm one of the early Gmail testers. From day 1 I registered, I started received spams and I asked again and again, the response had always been non-sense like "our spam filters are good enough, you don't need to block anyone yourself". Really? So I never used Gmail as my primary email address. And this thing should be based on the exactly the same sh*tty logic. Never mind, I'm on the verge to ditch Google.

[mrlatinos]

I don't see any way to block users through the Android app.

[turnerc]

On a file within the Shared section, click the three dots to the right, block should be the last option.