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by daviddever23box 877 days ago
The physical analogy is a cover page, intended to conceal the subsequent contents when stacked on a table.

A tooltip change (warning) to the sharing view would be sufficient to address the concerns that the first page is displayed as part of the preview for those with Google Drive integrations enabled.

You should change your tl;dr to reflect that one can view a preview of the first page of a shared Google Doc, despite not having access, when provided the sharing link and with Google Drive integrations enabled.
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jsiepkes 877 days ago
> A tooltip change (warning) to the sharing view would be sufficient to address the concerns that the first page is displaye

No one reasonably expects something to be viewable in any form if you haven't given permissions for it. Having to tell the user about such a thing via a tooltip is just bad UX design.

I also wonder if Google didn't create a footgun for themselves if some genius at Google in the future decides the preview looked better if they showed 2 pages instead of one in some UI's.

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