Hide Google Drive features

Disables various functions of Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms and Sites. Useful in classrooms.

What is Hide Google Drive features?

'Hide Google Drive features' is a Chrome extension aimed at creating a safer digital space for students. The extension allows the limiting of key features such as image and video web searches, dictionary use, comments and sharing functionalities in Google Suite tools like Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms, and Sites. Furthermore, it can inhibit form submissions and obscure games available in Google Search. The extension can be customized according to needs by adjusting the settings in the provided config file.

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Users: 2,000+ ▼ -1,000

Rating: 3.50 (4)

Version: 1.1.6 (Last updated: 2020-05-28)

Creation date: 2020-05-26

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

storage
tabs
webRequest
webRequestBlocking
https://*.google.com/*
http://*.google.com/*
https://*.kamihq.com/*

Size: 21.09K

Email: ae*****@ytcte.org

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 21608 ▼ 3344

Other rankings

#4205 in Accessibility ▼ 54

#5 in features keyword 24 ▼ 3

#16 in drive keyword 54

#53 in prevent keyword 21 ▼ 1

#59 in value keyword 8 ▼ 1

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Summary

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The purpose of this app is to allow managed students the ability to use the Google Suite Office Productivity tools while providing protection from possibly objectionable internet data content.

This app offers this protection by providing a set of options that would allow limiting the following: internet image searches and insertions, access to internet research text, and internet video searches and insertions. Additional options include: not allowing sharing, blocking insertion of comments, blocking form submissions and blocking feeds within Google Sheets.

Administrators may choose to either use the app with a config file to control what is blocked, or install the app with no config file - and all options will then be set to ‘blocked’. If using the config file, (see code at the bottom to be added to the extension policy) administrators will select ‘true’ for all options where blocking is desired. Anything not set to ‘true’ will default to ‘false’ (or ‘no blocking’).

Below is the list of discrete functions that may be blocked.

There are 11 items that this extension blocks

disableImageWebSearch - Hide image web search disableImageAddByURL - Prevent inserting images by URL (Requires disableImageWebSearch to be active) disableVideoWebSearch - Hide video web search disableExplore - Hide the explore/research pane disableSharing - Hide sharing functions

User reviews

Hid the explore button like I wanted. Also disabled comment functionality. *sigh*

Fidget, 2022-12-06

This is the best extension for hiding the annoying Explore button on Google Drive - Google are too lazy to remove it or give the option to hide it, so this extension is a god send.

P Marchie, 2022-04-10

I'm fully lost. I installed this extension and, upon opening a document, nothing seems to be hidden. I don't know if this was meant for an earlier version of Google Docs but I can't seem to hide anything with it. There aren't any usable instructions or anything.

Chicken GJ, 2021-04-23

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Safety

Risk impact

Hide Google Drive features is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Hide Google Drive features if you trust the publisher.