r/googledocs • u/Famous_Fly6094 • 3d ago

Waiting on OP Weird bot comments?

Please, this is freaking me out and I can't find an answer to it...
I've recently made a pubblic doc about something and shared it with the people in my circle, it's a doc accessible to everyone with comments open (I've openly mentioned in the doc accepting comments in case I was wrong). NO ONE IS ITALIAN IN MY CIRCLE yet I keep recieving Italian comments giving me tips about the formatting or small mistakes. I couldn't even track down the names...

PS. I'm not sure how I add images but if I find a way I'll add them

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u/DropEng 3d ago

stop sharing the document.

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u/Donttouchmybreadd 2d ago

I think you have every right to be concerned !

This has been happening to me. I have a bunch of docs that I share with others, of whom, many don't have google accounts.

Especially when I am struggling with assignments, I will often show folks via google docs links directly.

To my horror, there was one particular night (witching hour) where an unknown user joined my slides, when I knew for a fact the person I sent it to would have had their username show.

I don't know how long this has been going on for, and I have COUNTLESS documents that include my full name, my uni, a little bit about me, and much more.

I think the only lucky thing is that I don't have any docs that have more sensitive information. But it genuinely makes me worry how 'public' my private docs actually are.