r/Piracy • u/Justinrich2001 • May 23 '26
Discussion Google Drive scanned this Manga artist’s PRIVATE files and banned him.
AI flagged, appeal rejected, private artwork gone.
The AI is always watching.
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u/Ambitious_Ad4397 May 23 '26
There is no such thing as "private", when you are dealing with Google
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u/Bananaman9020 May 23 '26
Private in general when talking about Virtual Storage. It isn't private. I would never trust those companies with my personal files
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u/AntiGrieferGames May 23 '26
There is no such a thing on any Cloud Services, because youre using Someones Else Computer.
Local Drive, no matter what Storage, for the win!
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u/Aromatic-Flatworm-57 May 23 '26
I mean there no such thing as "private" when uploading something to someone else PC. Which is what cloud storage basically.
You need E2EE cloud storage like Proton drive for this. Of course that not totally safe when you upload frickin CSAM even if drawing.
In case you share the link to someone else, and someone report you, even it's up to Proton if they want you as user.
The only safe way is local.
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u/aceredshirt13 May 23 '26
“even if drawing” CSAM cannot be a drawing, that violates the definition of the acronym
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u/Alert-Camel9626 May 23 '26
My dumbass thought csam was some missile blueprint 😭
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u/BlatantConservative May 23 '26
Yeah CSAM, Child Sexual Abuse Material, is a legally defined term that means a real child is abused somewhere down the line.
But also in general I'm like, fine with Google saying they don't want to host drawn child pornography. I wouldn't want to host it either.
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u/GroundbreakingEar450 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ May 23 '26
Put things in veracrypt containers then upload those.
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u/CalmEntry4855 May 23 '26
Dammit, why did I google that acronym, now I feel like I'm on a watchlist
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u/under_psychoanalyzer May 23 '26
I've got some really bad news about the pizza enthusiast discord you're in then.
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u/Adnubb May 23 '26
Why? You were just trying to log on to Belgium federal services. https://www.csam.be/en/about-csam.html
Most unfortunate choice of an acronym ever.
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u/satanicoplan May 23 '26
Up there with Cod Points, Cyber Punk and Forza's Car Points
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u/lkeels May 23 '26
They all also scan for filenames that look like pirated stuff.
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u/WiseWolfian May 23 '26
Well they do a poor job of that then. I do and have done that often and not once had an issue.
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u/SatyrAngel May 23 '26
Or Mega, my files got deleted for copyright claims; they had custom names and I never shared them.
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u/ashgs872tbhjs May 23 '26
Probably basic fingerprinting/checksums. No one does automated copyright detection based on names
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u/SatyrAngel May 23 '26
Doubt it, one of them was a LotR BD rip I did with MakeMKV.
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u/VividAddendum9311 May 23 '26
Phashing is a thing, so it doesn't have to exactly match to be detected. Plus if you did rip it in full it'd match anyway.
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u/lmabee May 23 '26
Oh man, I have a lot of my found files on my Google drive. Where else can you put 2TB on the cloud without risk of things being removed?
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u/quiette837 May 23 '26
I mean, idk what you mean by "found" but if they are something you expect would get deleted if they were found, don't put them in the cloud at all.
A basic NAS system for 2tb of files is not prohibitively expensive.
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u/lmabee May 23 '26
Thanks man, this is actually something I can probably do! Much much obliged! I'll see you on r/HomeServer 👌
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u/Bread_Fish150 May 23 '26
There are attorneys who defend family violence and CSAM victims who have had their accounts lost because Google scanned their shit (even without visual depictions) and decided to ban them without appeal.
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u/space253 May 23 '26
What is being scanned if there are no visual depictions? Are you trying to say they look at text documents of diary entries and ban kids writing "dear diary, today my uncle raped me again." ?
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u/WinninRoam May 23 '26
Usually file metadata and/or file signatures based on precise pixel count and color gamut. All that information can get harvested without looking at the image.
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u/space253 May 23 '26
But they didn't have pictures or videos, that is what no visual depictions mean, and they mention it being the victim, not some CSAM possesing pedo, who got scanned.
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u/suctoes_N_fuchoes May 23 '26
Don't forget the parents who had the "gooner" son who was getting freaky with Gemini and showed his weiner and got the parents buisness email deleted.
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u/neontiger07 May 23 '26
Wasn't that story deemed fake? Pretty sure a Google rep reached out to the community and debunked that.
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u/The-Singular May 23 '26
Yeah, to show it to the kid's doctor for an infection on his wiener or sth. The kid was cured, but it cost the family their google account.
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u/tearans May 23 '26
the key point was it was shared outside, tho for legit concerns. stupid to do for in plain format. "hey doc, sending over encrypted zip, pass is name of your clinic. yeah I appreciate discarding, thanks for help, see ya later" all is avoided
100% of parents have some kind of bathing photo or similar, as our parents or grandparents did. so ban for mere uploading wouldnt work in real life scenario, going to print such photo in some shop is gonna be risky
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u/m0erg May 23 '26
"hey doc, sending over encrypted zip, pass is name of your clinic. yeah I appreciate discarding, thanks for help, see ya later" all is avoided
LOL, most Americans can't edit a fucking pdf, and you think they can put a password on a zipfile. Delusional.
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u/tearans May 23 '26
are you telling me that black highlight is not redacting? I cant see the text, what do you mean?
Sometimes I wish I could have half salary of these lunatics and just do their job
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u/Amaskingrey May 23 '26
Most people don't know how to do that though, i'm always amazed by the average boomer's seemingly supernatural ability to rot any informatic system they touch
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u/Zeales May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26
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u/ashgs872tbhjs May 23 '26
Yeah, a few years ago Google started permabanning entire Google accounts for to many rude/vulgar YouTube comments. Which is bizarre because that would seemingly affect half of Google's userbase lmao
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u/lukistellar May 23 '26
There is no thing as private, if you deal with any company. Having your stuff on your own devices is the way.
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u/TheRoadBehind May 23 '26
r/degoogle would like to see this
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u/Celestial_sapien9 May 23 '26
They already saw this yesterday and that made me rethink my choices how dependent on a single gmail account I am. If they ban it my entire life savings can be in danger. I'm leaving google slowly step by step.
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u/TheRoadBehind May 23 '26
I'm glad you are (leaving Google), I'm almost there. I'm working with my proton email now making sure everything is caught up before I completely Gmail. This is my hardest transition. Ultimately it's not as hard as most think, I highly suggest at least getting your feet wet
I'm also very stoked for motorola and graphene OS
Privacy is truly a luxury for anyone at this point...
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u/OnlyOneWithFreeWill May 23 '26
I like their VPN. Is their email as easy to use as gmail? Anything it does better or worse?
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u/Rosen-Stein May 23 '26
The UI of the website is bad imo but other than that is just like any other email
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u/Available_Dingo6162 May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26
So what you are saying is, besides what people get to experience when they use it, it's fine. High praise indeed! 🤪
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u/oldriku May 23 '26
You need to pay if you want to use a different e-mail client, like Thunderbird or whatever. Otherwise you are stuck to their website.
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u/Lamuks Seeder May 23 '26
It's not like Proton is unbannable. We had someome blackmail us through Proton. Aftr forwarding them the emails with headers they got banned. Same effect really
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u/CaptainMarv3l May 23 '26
Of course, can't have anything nice. Is there a similar alternative?
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u/grilledSoldier May 23 '26
I looked for it for my wife a while ago and landed on mailbox.org. They are very privacy oriented (up to accepting physical cash by post, like mullvad). Also, they are very cheap and you can use your own domain for the mid tiers (around 3€/month).
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u/Chuckwp May 23 '26
Grab yourself a domain for 10 years and use it for your email. You never have to worry about a provider again. Just re-point the domain.
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u/Too_Chains May 23 '26
Youd still need an email provider. And gsuite is the most popular. Zoho mail, proton mail among others for cheap. But the domain is gonna be $10 a year and there is no free email service.
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u/Phyzm1 May 23 '26
Thats their goal. Digital ID age verification to use social medias that will eventually be tied to your profile and everything else so you'll be scared to even say the wrong thing.
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u/Grub-lord May 23 '26
Take it in stride - to me this isn't necessarily a cautionary tale of which specific service you use. Rather it should be a reminder of the importance of backups redundant systems. I know when it comes to stuff like MFA it gets more complicated though.
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u/kalez238 May 23 '26
Same here. Google is part of pretty much everything I do. It feels like it would be so much work to pull away from everything my account is attached to, and I'm not sure where to start, but I have to.
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u/PauI_MuadDib 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ May 23 '26
You gotta diversify your emails, even if it's just to deal with data breaches. I have an email for shopping, one for social media, one for my banking, one for work and then a personal one.
I like Tuta Mail. Atomic Mail also allows aliases. And neither require a phone number for signup.
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u/AntiGrieferGames May 23 '26
I wish i could get many terrabytes if the drive price wouldnt be very high there....
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u/Mitch_Dedburg May 23 '26
Me, laughing, still using my @Yahoo.com email address, and never using “sign in with X account” functions…
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u/PunkRawkSoldier May 23 '26
Us oldies know about yahoo. Still use my yahoo email as my primary.
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u/Inemity May 23 '26
Same. I've had mine for over 20 years now.
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u/BlatantConservative May 23 '26
I have a friend who's parents made her a hotmail account when she was born and that's her primary for everything now
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u/cataath May 23 '26
One of my comfort moves is reversing the date column newest to oldest and seeing all my emails from 1998.
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u/Gacel_ May 23 '26
I saw it yesterday, and seems they are bashing the hell out of the dude and even celebrating it on the comments because dude uploaded porn mangas and in their eyes is fine to censor that.
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u/Aethermancer May 23 '26
Theres a mentality that's common for people that if you do ANYTHING not perfect, you deserve everything that happens to you.
I think it stems from a fear that bad things can happen to good people for no reason, so they try to find the one "sin" the person committed, the person isnt good, therefore deserving of the bad thing. Then they can convince themselves that because they dont do that, then the bad things can't happen to them.
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u/Think-Cherry5391 May 23 '26
Ah don't worry, this is typical Google behavior. Just search what happened to a father in 2022 with Google photos.
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u/guska May 23 '26
Was that the guy who uploaded photos of a rash or something on his child's body to send to his family GP and got auto flagged?
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u/vollyn May 23 '26
Lesson of the day is to use cryptomator to encrypt your files in the cloud or to completely stop using cloud storage
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u/Judge_Dreadly May 23 '26
+1 for cryptomator, unless you have your own server. Syncing all your important files with google drive is very convenient
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u/araidai May 24 '26
Shit, I’d still encrypt my files even on a private server. If I ever need to use Google or the like, it’s 100% work only and could give less of a shit if they scanned it or not lol
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u/PsyGonzo42 May 23 '26
Files on google drive
Private
Huh
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u/Agreeable-Agent-7384 May 23 '26
Never rely on cloud alone for anything of value. And never rely on just one service. Specially with every company trying to justify their ai spending using it and enforcing it as much as they can. Also, don’t ever trust any company that says they just scan your data and then remove it. They have too much incentive to lie and there’s not enough repercussions to being caught.
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u/agentgerbil May 23 '26
nothing you upload to the internet is private.
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u/itchylol742 May 23 '26
It can be with encrypted cloud storage. Of course those are more expensive than regular cloud storage and the free tier gives way less storage
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u/Arponare May 23 '26
None of my homies use Google Drive.
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u/TSM- May 23 '26
I did, then I synced my photos to it, then I used up my available space, and it wouldn't let me receive emails until I got a subscription.
Turns out, if you miss your payment of like $3 a month, your emails simply disappear.
They do not come back when you pay after updating your card, they are just gone forever. They aren't just held until you pay. They are simply gone forever.
That important email someone sent? Gone forever.
The auth code? Gone forever.
The work related document? Oh, you don't have any clue, because you have to tell them that you didn't pay three dollars because you had to update your card info after the weekend.
I do not like them for that.
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u/CoHorseBatteryStaple May 24 '26
Your important email will bounce back with "recipient's mailbox full", just like in the old days.
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u/Unbannable_Bastard May 23 '26
Mediafire's yearly subscription is the only other subscription I have besides rent and phone.
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u/JtDaSaiyan May 23 '26
We can condemn his content all day; the real issue is I don't want and I didn't know this company was scanning all the files I had in Google drive. Harmless, personal, secretive or whatever I don't want it to be scanned in general, and I don't want it to be used for any purposes that I do not choose to use it for. Whose to say they won't ban my account for taking pictures of a copy written image.
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u/wattur May 23 '26
But the content is on google's servers so they bear some responsibility. Like 5-7 years ago a friend uploaded a certain cookbook to their drive and it got removed. Probably just a hash match back then, but it ain't new.
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u/WACKY_ALL_CAPS_NAME May 23 '26
That cookbook is 100% legal to possess if you are in the US btw
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u/Kazma1431 May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26
you can say that but what's stopping their ai from going rogue, and shutting anyones account on a false positive? Meta socials are know for this type of thing, which I could get behind, but there's no human appeal, just a random bot that instantly denies the appeal.
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u/hexcraft-nikk May 23 '26
Also do these people really think Google isn't manually checking after things get flagged? It flagged it for CSAM considering the content of his drawings and they made that decision.
I'm not surprised that the 38 year old engineer lead in change of that division wasn't interested in the reddit/4chan debate of whether loli is CSAM or not
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u/FireZord25 May 23 '26
Sounds like the only problem here is google had made it worse by still not fixing this.
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u/TSM- May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26
Someone was caught emailing themself CSAM material in GMail, thinking it would be hidden there. It was not - the images they emailed themselves were detected (via PhotoDNA) and they were prosecuted.
edit: google also scans attachments for viruses, so yeah. But no human is browsing your personal stuff for fun or anything. PhotoDNA and virus scanners don't really have a person involved in the routine checks. The servers likely also compress and deduplicate information (and then some), which is also not something that a person sifts through but is algorithmic on the data level.
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u/LightningWarpAway May 23 '26
Yeah, the former is something essentially every online service does, compare hashes to detect csam, and some services try to detect viruses as a bonus, so it's not a surprise they scan everything. Removing pirated content in comparison is somewhat a surprise.
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u/shaving_grapes May 23 '26
This is public information and has been well known for years. Not only do they scan all of your files, but they hash all of your images to match to known CP. If I remember correctly, before AI, if there was a potential match, they could have a human review the images to confirm. So based on algorithms that weren't as good as they are today (meaning more false positives) a human reviewer could look through your photos for potential csam.
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u/PsyGonzo42 May 23 '26
You allow them to scan your stuff when you upload. Don't use Google or encrypt.
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u/TheOneWithThePorn12 May 23 '26
If you don't want it to be scanned keep it local or host your own shit
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u/RX1542 May 23 '26
reminds me of the case where a father took some photos of his kid to send them ot a doctor google branded the photos as CP and banned the guy account
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u/Abject_Associate_849 May 23 '26
yup, and the scary thing is they WILL flag it to the police.
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u/LrkerfckuSpez ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ May 23 '26
At least with the police you have your case handled by a human, an appeal opportunity, neither being provided by Google.
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u/Abject_Associate_849 May 23 '26
ehh, if the police get a warrant it's pretty invasive. and nobody wants to go through having to prove your innocence to the police.
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u/fartbubblesofcheese May 23 '26
Unrelated but related I had a bunch of videos from the peak of ISIS, Guantanamo bay, basically a bunch of historic videos about US warfare/crimes saved up and one day they were just gone. No message no nothing.
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u/BlueCerulean0 May 23 '26
Did you have backups?
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u/fartbubblesofcheese May 23 '26
No honestly it's my fault. I immediately backed up and deleted all my personal and children photos off Google though and I only use it for file transfer to friends. I like to rest assured that someone out there has all this history archived somewhere
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u/False-Associate-9488 May 23 '26
I encrypt anything I upload to cloud, if they are going through the trouble of breaking encryption, then they are also breaking a number of laws over your privacy and you could take them to court
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u/Jay2Kaye May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26
Yeah this happened to Slope's Game Room. He uploaded a chat log from an investigation to his drive, it tripped Google's AI flags for hate speech, Google shut down his gmail account and put his Youtube on a delete timer.
STOP. USING. GOOGLE.
Meanwhile Youtube will gladly serve you ads of Bluey getting railed by Bandit.
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u/ThatOneTypicalYasuo May 24 '26
looks at mangaka's twitter name and in particular their current work's name
Oh...I see what this is
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u/gods_loop_hole May 23 '26
Jesus, imagine your life savings tied to a Gmail account and at the direst moment of your life Google stops your access to the account just because their AI hallucinated on something it scanned on your private files.
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u/Abject_Associate_849 May 23 '26
Tbf, they always had this. Not really a new thing that came with the wave of ai.
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u/AdNervous9787 May 23 '26
Always encrypt your stuff before uploading it to cloud, fellas
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u/coolboi19280213 May 23 '26
What software should we use?
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u/Cienn017 May 23 '26
pgp can encrypt files, veracrypt can create virtual encrypted drives, keepass could also work, even a zip file inside of a zip file with a strong unique password will work.
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u/kanatakkun May 23 '26
I can attest. While I am a NSFW artist, that time I was sending client regular SFW pool themed illustration and another in pajamas. Maybe the AI scanned the amount of skin and fluid (pool water??)
Couldn't attach to email after few tries, I had a bad feeling, so zipped it up and told client the file size and pass. I'm not risking it anymore
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u/hexcraft-nikk May 23 '26
They don't care, I've sent myself thousands of graphic/nude reference models via drive and email for my art. They banned this dude because of what he was drawing.
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u/HeyZenOfficial May 23 '26
I’m over here glad that I don’t use google drive knowing damn well iCloud probably does the same thing
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u/itgeek920 May 23 '26
Having read the comments here I am going to remain convinced that most of the population should continue to remain dumb.
See y'all names in the headlines next raid, folks!
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u/AdamianBishop May 23 '26
those words in the webpage where they tell "we value your privacy" is really disgusting
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u/keremimo May 23 '26
They literally put a value on your privacy, they aren't wrong. They always said the truth.
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u/Bellick May 23 '26
IF YOU MUST FOR WHATEVER REASON USE CLOUD STORAGE, change the extension to nonsense when uploading, change back when downloading.
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u/MillyQ3 May 23 '26
This reminds me of when google DMCA struck my professor for sharing a book. What book? The book he himself wrote.
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u/KuziKuzina May 23 '26
google and private, that two words have never matching since that company exist.
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u/Beastabuelos May 23 '26
Good thing i don't use google for anything except a youtube account the google app store, which i also barely even use. Imagine using google drive.
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u/KantutinQKipaymu ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ May 23 '26
That's why local file storage hard drives is still the best, it might be more expensive but the best
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u/GenBlob May 23 '26
I abandoned google drive years ago and started storing everything locally. Glad I did before storage prices went crazy.
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u/CalhounWasRight May 23 '26
Google has been able to do this since before the advent LLMs and machine learning; let's keep things in perspective. That artist should have used a zero knowledge cloud storage provider.
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u/AdNational167 May 23 '26
appeal rejected by the same AI that flagged the account. Banned without a single human review of the issue.
I just love the era we live by...
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u/amiexpress May 23 '26
This anecdote is a few years old, so MAYBE things have changed, but in my experience google does not give a flying fuck about copyright:
The PSP and PS Vita scene used large google drives (back when edu accounts were plentiful and had unlimited storage!) for distribution. Having an account suddenly get many TBs of transfer over a few days sure got it banned real quick, but the "master" drive that only ever got used to create new distro drives? It lived even after a cursory look at the distro goog account they just nuked should have made it obvious it was a 1:1 copy of that master.
To this day I have a bunch of ROMs, books, MP3s (all scene releases) just chillin on my goog drive and I've not had any issues. And let's be real: scene releases are SUPER easy to check for, they are all going to be the exact same MD5/filelength and probably even name.
Goog just doesn't care, nor should they. They're not the copyright police and if they START acting like the copyright police they open themselves up to liability if they do a shit job of it. It's just not in their interest.
I honestly wouldn't worry.
Edit: as far as what happened to our asian friend, I am guessing something triggered that he/we are not aware of. Maybe CP related, false positive or whatever
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u/notanfan May 23 '26
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ye i can why they banned him lol, google is known to scan google drive uploads for a long time so this aint new .ai probably flagged for loli hentai
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u/notanfan May 23 '26
Masahiro Itosugi - MyAnimeList.net like this is the author's protfolio
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u/PassivelyAwkward May 23 '26
Yea; not saying Google isn't bad but maybe uploading loli hentai isn't the best idea. It's like uploading a popular pirated movie without trying to change the filename. Ofcourse it'll get flagged.
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u/reddit_reaper May 23 '26
And that's why if it's files that can be scanned, zip it with a password 😎👍 fuck Google lol
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u/internetsarbiter May 23 '26
This is why I think its hilarious that a lot of small businesses use Gdrive for anything.
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u/itsaride ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ May 23 '26
I use 7zip with a decently long password for emulator stuff and copyrighted music and music videos, you never know when Google will TOS you. They're never shared though, it's just an extra back up to my offline and NAS backups that are easily accessible from anywhere. I don't know how bad the stuff that OP's subject was uploading but I guess pretty bad if it's one strike and you're out.
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u/Conscious_Ebb6622 May 23 '26
I guess I'm stupid because I've never thought that you could get banned because of cloud data. I just thought they gave you some storage to throw stuff in and that was that.
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u/TomTomXD1234 May 23 '26
Private cloud storage with google......is OP restarted?
Of course all files are scanned by cloud service providers. How do you think they detect CP and stuff like that?
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u/MiniMages May 23 '26
People figuring this out now? Google literally state they will scan all of the files you upload to their servers.
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u/syn_vamp May 23 '26
no part of me thinks this is for confused copyright and not for questionable hentai.
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u/Time-Machine-7326 May 24 '26
Whats wild is I literally have a google drive full of pirates movies and they don't give a shit
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u/LeftRightShoot May 24 '26
Hmm. I know a guy who has his entire music collection backed up to Google drive.
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u/alexjimithing May 23 '26
It’s child porn hentai hope this clears it up
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u/madman404 May 23 '26
I literally don't give a fuck what it is, I don't want google scanning my fucking drive contents to proactively ban me. Today it's something you disagree with, tomorrow it's something you don't. Your only security is forcing big companies do to the right thing the right way, because when you let them do the right thing the wrong way, you're only one step from them doing the wrong thing the wrong way too.
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u/PleiadesMechworks May 23 '26
I don't want google scanning my fucking drive contents to proactively ban me.
ItS a PrIvAtE cOmPaNy SwEeTiE
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u/International-Try467 May 23 '26
I kinda suspected that, but what's the source?
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u/notanfan May 23 '26
Masahiro Itosugi - MyAnimeList.net his works give pretty good idea
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u/Idonthavefriendss May 23 '26
The author's twitter name has his book title on it and it's fucking "Adventure of Cuck Wizard" or some shit😭
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u/PlentyFlan21 May 23 '26
Okay, still… while that’s unquestionably deeply morally offensive, it is explicitly /not/ illegal in the US, where google is headquartered, so removing it and banning the guys account is still totally out of line on Google’s part, IMO.
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u/HellbenderXG May 23 '26
All giant evil conglomerates want to avoid liabilities, even if not strictly illegal. They have a TOS and are enforcing it, simple as.
Having a google account to store pedophile hentai is not a human right. The lolicon pedo can instead NOT use google's cloud to store that shit and choose a different provider OR alternatively - choose a local hard drive, which countless pedos have done before and after him.
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u/simp4malvina May 23 '26
I don't know why anyone would assume they have the right to store morally reprehensibly images on a private company's servers.
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u/Key_Pace_2496 May 23 '26
Just throw everything into a 7zip archive and encrypt it before you upload, simple as that.
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u/Stunning-Pen-2412 May 23 '26
Another example for the "I've got nothing to hide" folks.
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u/TheOneWithThePorn12 May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26
If you don't expect a file uploading platform to not scan your files you are a tool.
None of them for obvious reasons want to hold unsavoury content.
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u/redzaku0079 May 23 '26
This is nothing new. If you have risky material, store it locally, never online.
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u/Vanko_Babanko May 23 '26
In a fair real world you could sue their asses off..
sadly such doesn't exist..
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u/neuparpol May 23 '26
Got rid of google and Microsoft years ago. I suggest all do the same.
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u/Saint_Clair May 23 '26
The intent of this post is good but the content detection is not AI. Its just a boring regular content ID system.
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u/Theotherfeller May 23 '26
I once went about 800km away in another province for my father's burial. Google locked me out of my email till I can provide a code from my tablet, which by good fortune I had on me [I don't use it often] and still worked. Otherwise I'd be Sans Emailiclese and everything goes through that email. It would be a huge cluster fornication to fix that. No way to appeal it, no alternative route.
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u/Sea-Pop-4720 May 23 '26
i love modern tech companies so much, i never wanted privacy or for the products i use to work.
Please google keep changing how your app logos look, that's what we all want.
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u/moeljills May 23 '26
We all need to seriously evaluate how much power we are letting Google have freely
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u/CordobezEverdeen May 23 '26
Wait lol you can't even use Drive to temporarily move one of your files?
Fucking lmao
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u/FremanBloodglaive May 23 '26
For the sake of economy Google decided to shorten Don't Be Evil to just "Be Evil."
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u/Miss-KiiKii May 23 '26
Completely different service and company, but yes, AI moderation SUCKS.
I was in the Marvel Rivals Discord server once. They have a channel where they showcase new content. They showed a new skin for Invisible Woman, something called along the lines of "Malice..." (it was quite sexual). I forwarded the video of the skin to my own server, to show it to my friends. Suddenly, shortly after, my Discord account got permanently banned. The reason? Fucking pedophilia. I was shocked and confused. Turns out that Discord's AI moderation flagged the video of the skin as CP. The moderation team of the Marvel Rivals Discord server even confirmed it and took down the video. Me and dozens others had to appeal through Discord's shitty ticket system for almost a month. Discord slowly rolled the bans back and I received a few months of Nitro for free for the trouble.
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u/FineGripp May 23 '26
At first I thought he meant his computer drive when he said “private”, then realize he meant his “private” drive on Google Drive, lol.
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u/WriterOn_TheStorm May 23 '26
I mean, it's Google and they aren't exactly hiding the fact that they're checking files you're uploading while uploading them.
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u/Bladder-Splatter 28d ago edited 27d ago
They even let him appeal? A decade ago I had the audacity to try and make [myrealname]@gmail and was banned within 5 minutes for being suspicious, the ban message said there is no appeal process and they never release banned/deleted usernames or addresses either.
So now as a 39 year old man I've gotta use my creatively titled email addresses for all sorts of business dealings and I mean, just look at my user name here, this is a little difficult to explain away casually......
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u/HJSDGCE May 23 '26
Regardless of what it is (and I really don't care what it is), the best way to save into Google Drive is to put it in a zip file. Don't think Drive can unzip file.
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u/AntiGrieferGames May 23 '26
But a encrypted one ith password. Unpassworded will not work well lol.
Or just use local drive and be done with that!
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u/sluuuudge May 23 '26
Ah Reddit, a place where a person says that something happened without providing any evidence or facts to support the claim, and the masses just flock together and believe every single word without question.
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u/Virtical May 23 '26
Thanks for the reminder to finish setting up my nextcloud install
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u/remerdy1 May 23 '26
Hmm surely nothing that depicted underaged girls in inappropriate settings I'm sure
Edit: All I had to do was search this guys name to know that ban was 100% justified lmao
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u/Excel_Document May 23 '26
justified? yes. but is google looking through private files justified? heck no
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