Google is creepy.. how do they know?

I think that's one of the ways Apple and Microsoft stay in the game and no single company gets dominant marketshare. Google's business model is completely dependent not only on knowing as much about you as possible, but using as much of that information as possible. Apple/Microsoft/Amazon only want that information to sell you more of their products, not to package you for resale to 3rd parties.

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Consider creating your own, personal FTP.

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I've railed against the cloud in the past due this exact reason.

Now I've gotten lazy and my worst fears are realized.

Personal ftp sounds messy and expensive and not very feature rich. I've managed my own iis servers in the past so I know what a pita this is if you want to run if from your own PC.

Grr.

Are the files shared? I know they check those for malware and possibly copyrighted stuff, but as far as I know they don't check files that aren't shared (except for maybe forms, which may be automatically checked for phishing concerns?).

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Personal ftp sounds messy and expensive and not very feature rich.

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OwnCloud

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Personal ftp sounds messy and expensive and not very feature rich.

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You're probably right there. Consider, then, a high-ish end (consumer, not business) VPN router if your devices allow for such connections in conjunction with a "home server" (in quotes because you can just use any windows computer and do some pretty decent fileshares for access purposes). Your uplink, of course, will be your limiting factor.

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Your uplink, of course, will be your limiting factor.

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Thanks Comcast for my crappy upload speed.

I had the whole free dynamic DNS and iis running locally and I gave it all up to go to the cloud.

The more things change...

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Personal ftp sounds messy and expensive and not very feature rich. I've managed my own iis servers in the past so I know what a pita this is if you want to run if from your own PC.

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Western Digital sells a personal cloud drive that comes complete with mobile apps to let you host your own cloud LINK

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did you read the TOS (Terms of Service prior to using Google Drive? Is the file you have there a violation of those Terms of Service?

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I actually reread it this morning but I honestly can't tell how storing apk files violates it.

Eta does anyone else know? Maybe the issue is that XDA developers release free versions of apps to other members that cost money in the play store our maybe Google is worried that sharing apk files in general is a no no.

Just aggravating because I was only sharing these to avoid having to log into XDA on every phone I want to install them on and put up with the stupid 'wait 20 seconds for your download link' crap.

See my comment above. I've been doing some googling today but can't figure out exactly what is or isn't acceptable.

you're right.. It's vague.

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Ah...that makes sense. I bet this is it.

I'm wondering if they would do anything at all. On one hand, they don't want you pirating apps, on the other hand, they don't want you to stop using google services.

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for the record, it just has a little yellow caution triangle next to it..and when you roll over it it says 'inappropriate item - sharing disabled'.

i understand XDA devs dont work for charity; but i'm pretty over all those 'wait 30 seconds for download to begin' hosting sites where all the ROMs & stuff are now.

that's the whole reason i started storing the good stuff on google drive.

guess i have to go for plan B now that i cant share it with all my phones.

eta i'm trying a new trick; change all the names to "blah_apk" and see if they can still figure it out..i bet they can. likely google is peeking into the archive itself.