" I am a rich Nigerian prince and have some great news for you!!"). Fortunately, my messages were along the lines of praise (" hey cool file. I assumed this was common knowledge, but in the last two weeks, I've contacted two people who were surprised I found their email addresses. All changes to the file name (friendly warning against temporary names such as: " stupid project my boss is making me do").All editing activity including a timestamp.Your name (as shown when you click here).When you share a read-only/link file on Google Drive, did you know that you're probably sharing the following information? The intent of this post is to inform readers that if they choose to share a file with the global internet - their email address IS visible but the below instructions provide a couple of work arounds. I have chosen not to disclose the methods because I suspect they would be used for more harm than good. However, there are still at least two ways to discover a file owner's email address (Editors' email addresses remain concealed). This answer is based on Paul Rowland's answer and the blog post he linked to.UPDATED: In August of 2020, Google changed the settings to conceal the address from being seen by way of the method described below.
Insert the above URL.Ĭurrently, it works at least for Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations. In Google Docs menu, choose: Insert > Image > By URL > Paste an image URL here.Open the Google Docs document that you want to track. Strip everything except the URL in the IMG tag, it looks like this: Statcounter will now generate some HTML code enclosed in a tag. Invisible Counter -> Google Pages -> HTML only counter. Under “Install Code”, choose the following options: Go to and register for a free account.Update 2014-Jan-11: Seems to be working for Sheets but not DocsĪny web site analytics tool can help. Now Google Docs Presentation seems to retrieve image-by-URL once upon inserting, and therefore no website tracking tools work anymore.
Update 2013-Oct-4: Looks like this doesn't work anymore.
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