René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Remove Google Drive support","articleBody":"Rationale:\n\n- feels wrong to use Google Drive as a blob backing store. Hit multiple times changes needed from Varasto side due to changing limitations at Google Drive side.\n  * supporting pain: #221\n- if person wants to use Google, their [Cloud Storage](https://cloud.google.com/storage) is S3-compatible. Seems more clean to consolidate on S3-based APIs and our CAS is more cleanly backed by the likes of S3 than forcing files to sit in directories (our local FS driver is fine though!).\n\nRelated: #185 \n\nMisc thoughts:\n\n- OTOH [Google One](https://one.google.com/about/plans) offers 2 TB @ 10 €/mo. This could be attractive to many.\n- If one really wants to use Google Drive, from Varasto side we could still standardize for S3 and use \"proxy\" that adapts S3 to Google Drive, such as [$ rclone serve s3](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve_s3/)","author":{"url":"https://github.com/joonas-fi","@type":"Person","name":"joonas-fi"},"datePublished":"2026-03-28T09:32:04.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/270/varasto/issues/270"}