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> Anyway, I don't understand one thing: why is it safer to let developers host the download files on their drive? What's the difference, really?

Drive's intended use case and sharing model may support dealing with abuse reports more efficient (for instance, it might make it practical to shift a reported file to non-publicly-shared after receiving an abuse report but before confirming that it contains malware.)



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