

Converted to a webpage, all of the spreadsheet components/functions are lost which defeats the purpose of sharing the spreadsheet. However, the other individual I contacted was sharing the intricacies of a rather sophisticated spreadsheet. She now uses this converted webpage which delivers all the same information from her document, without displaying her contact information.

She was sharing local information about COVID-19 via a read-only shared google document.

This was the case for the first individual I contacted. This approach works well for users who only want to share visual content from a file. However given the astronomically high likelihood that Google does not care about my post or tweets, you can sort of get around this issue one of two ways: Workaround Option #1: Publish The File as a Web Page Let's start a movement! #OkGoogleStopShowingMyEMail (4 months later not even a retweet - ouch). There does not appear to be a direct solution for users who do not want their email displayed when they share a file. Apparently, this is not a setting that can be configured as I unsuccessfully tried to tinker with Google privacy settings: However, now that I think about it, just because a user shares a file with the world, does not necessarily mean they wish to share all the above information. " 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.
