To be fair, emailing binaries (apart from known types such as images, PDFs, etc.) is a rare enough use case for legitimate purposes and an easy enough way of spamming malware to clueless random people that it's probably a reasonable default for gmail.

Having an option to allow them might be okay though. (I barely use gmail so I don't know if it has one or not.)

Ah you must be young...

for not using gmail? The hooked me in school

For not sending binaries by email - there is no shame to being young in this case as it means never developing the bad habits.

Before Dropbox and similiar it was far more a norm and various file sharing systems like SharePoint may wind up not actually used. Non-computer technical people often do so in companies all the time and practically use it as an ersatz version control system to the cringe of IT.

This WebRTC p2p file transfer has been a revelation for me. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23023675

We "thankfully" have shared folders we can use to drop stuff to specific users.

But most of our software lives on a RDP server anyways.

He means there used to be a time when people would mail binaries to each other more often, before they got too big and DRM'ed for that.

There was also a time when alt.binaries was a thing (technically not email, but usenet is pretty similar)

I use vmdk’s

Seriously I don’t know how long it’ll last but a zip file into a fat32 disk image in a vmdk got through just fine.

The bonus is that 7zip can extract from vmdk.