And you are here why?

via GoogleSystem While Google Drive lets you upload any file, the support for files that can't be edited using Google Docs/Sheets/Slides is limited. For example, you can embed PDF files and videos, but Google doesn't offer permalinks for images. So you've uploaded a photo to Google Drive and the only options are to download the file and link to the image page. But what if you want to embed that image in a web page or simply post a direct link to the image? You may think that right-clicking the image lets you copy the image URL, but that's not true. Even if you check the source code of a page or use features like Firefox's "view page info", you'll get a link that doesn't work. Fortunately, there's an easy solution - replace this URL from the address bar: http://docs.google.com/file/d/FILEID/edit with:  http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=FILEID (where FILEID is a long sequence of digits and letters).   This only works if you...

There is a pretty huge meme going around right now about how "Google Drive is stealing your data".  Typical examples on twitter include @pdparticle - WOW! Google pretty much owns your data once uploaded to Google Drive. t.co/YUIqIVtM #GoogleDrive Google Drive owns everything you upload: terms of service analysis t.co/MDuZZ52R The truth, as in most of these cases, is a lot more complicated.  In a nutshell, if you want to blame anybody/anything, blame the copyright laws . First of all, just to get this out of the way, Google explicitly says   Some of our Services allow you to submit content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours Moving on, consider what rights Google needs to just do what it does on a day to day basis In fact, do this backwards - if you store your data on a hosted service, anywhere , then you have to assign a whole bushel of rights to that service fo...