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		jabiko on July 19, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: To download from Google Drive, you must enable thi... I'm wondering why the information necessary for downloading the file can't just be encoded as a URL parameter. When the user clicks a file download link it should be possible to generate a short lived token that authenticates the user against googleusercontent.com.

ratww on July 19, 2022 [–]

That's quite easy to do with Amazon S3. Maybe Google could just use AWS since implementing this feature seems to be a bit complex for them. /s

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