It would be nice and convenient to access google drive files via ubuntu file manager, but today I woke up paranoid
It's not going to let Google track you all over your system, or even doing unrelated things in your file manager, but they obviously will know when you edit, copy, move, or delete files from Drive. And obviously they scan all of your documents on Drive for ad targeting, infringing content, AI training, and blackmail material. But connecting to them from Gnome won't give them the ability to do that to your files elsewhere. An official Google Drive app for desktop could, but this is just Gnome using public APIs.
Thank you, this was my question. Now I'll trust you and if it turns out google do manage to scan all the files in my system I'm gonna cry and blame you especifically for lying to me
blame you especifically
the accent I read your comments with has been adjusted to Miami
Key question: Safe from who? State actors? No, it's Google. Script kiddies? Probably, yeah
An old term for the type of "hacker" who has no real understanding of penetration testing, but knows how to browse darkweb hacker / troll forums and repurpose malicious scripts. The kind of person who can deface a very obsolete WordPress install with dozens of published CVEs and not much else.
it's a distinction below "hacker" hierarchically, the difference being that "script kiddies" don't necessarily have the knowledge, understanding, or skill to do things from scratch and just use pre-written tools made by real hackers to do malicious things.
