How to block users and spammers on Google Drive

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How are you going to block users and spammers on google drive? We show you how in this post. Google drive has approximately one billion users (Source: helloleads).

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Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service developed by Google. Drive allows users to store files in the cloud, synchronize files across devices, and share files. In addition to a web interface, Google Drive offers apps with offline capabilities for Windows and macOS computers, and Android and iOS smartphones and tablets. Google Drive comprises Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides, which are a part of the Google Docs Editors office suite that permits online collaborative editing of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, forms, and more.

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How to block users and spammers on google drive

So we know google drive stores our documents. We have both users and spammers on google drive. You are a user if you have a google drive account and regularly create and share documents. If your document is public, then it can be accessed by any google drive users as well as spammers.

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Spammers are people or organizations that send irrelevant or unsolicited messages over the internet, typically to large numbers of users. If spammers have access to your email address, they will keep spamming you and even have access to your public documents. For How to block users and spammers from accessing your documents in Google Drive, here are the steps below:-

a) Open Google drive. Then go to the share with me tab in the left sidebar where you will find files that other people shared with you.

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Goto Shared with me

b) Now right-click on the spam file or one that a user has sent you and select Block ‘users’ email ID‘.

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Select Block email address

c)  This will open a small popup window where you can verify the email id. Click on Block to confirm the decision.

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Select Block to confirm your decision

That is how to block users and spammers on google drive.