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"Warning: Apps will not have any API access to files unless the app has been installed in Chrome Web Store. To test an app during development, you must first create a listing and install it."

While that does make it feel a bit more secure, that would be a huge hassel for anyone that wants to go stealth at first.

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While that does make it feel a bit more secure, that would be a huge hassel for anyone that wants to go stealth at first.

Chrome Web Store has an option for testing where you can whitelist authorised people by Google ID. It may not address the whole issue, but it helps.

Ah! Did not know that. Thank you for pointing that out.

> Apps will not have any API access to files unless the app has been installed in Chrome Web Store

I wish google would try being different than apple rather than the same.

Yeah, this seems kind of bogus - if I'm reading it right, you also have to be creating a webapp to use their API - so hope of implementing a Linux client on FUSE is low at this point.

It seems like a better candidate for a linux FUSE client would be the existing document list API. It works with oauth, and lets you interact with documents.

The Drive API is a way to integrate new editor types into google docs.

It's an API. Inevitably, someone will implement the API so you can run a local version of it, so you can test in stealth mode.

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