Possible privacy issues with Spotlight search on Google Drive (macOS)

Hi,

If you use macOS and Google Drive to store your files, since last year there is the option to Stream your files to the HDD in order to save space on your physical drive.

These changes were implemented by Google by mounting Drive as a network drive. By default, macOS Spotlight cannot index and search on network drives.

Not long ago, Google released a fix to this to allow users to perform Spotlight searches on streamed Drives. However, there …

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