How I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (2012)

Re:How I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (2012) by x1798DE on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @07:19PM (#10268920)

Does anyone know if Google ended up changing their behavior on this?

I'm struggling to see why this is a legitimate design decision on their part - how is downloading a new copy every hour different from maintaining a persistent cache wherever they are storing it after download?

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Re:How I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (2012) by _gopz on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @07:24PM (#10268946)

> Since these URLs are private, Google does not want to store them anywhere permanently in the Google servers.

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Re:How I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (2012) by x1798DE on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @10:05PM (#10269444)

Yeah, I read that part, I just don't understand it. They are obviously storing the contents of the image somewhere (in memory?) for an hour, otherwise there's no point prefetching it in the first place. At the end of that hour, they download it again. If the image isn't different, they would be better off not throwing away the old copy.

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Re:How I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (2012) by aliakhtar on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @07:39PM (#10269000)

They should've at least implemented lazy loading, i.e only fetch the thumbs the user is looking at.

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Re:How I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (2012) by chipperyman573 on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @07:27PM (#10268959)

Google hasn't exactly been known to put users' privacy in front of gaining more information about them, though...

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