Hide Google Drive features chrome extension

What is Hide Google Drive features?

Hide Google Drive features is a docs extension for chrome. it's a free extension , it has 0 active users since released its first version, it earns an average rating of 3.50 from 4 rated user, last update is 1439 days ago.

What’s new in version 1.1.6?

                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
disableLinks - Prevent creating links
disableDictionary - Prevent dictionary from being used
disableComments - Prevent comments from being created and viewed
disableFormsPublishing - Prevent forms from being published/sent
disableGames - Hide playable games from Google Search results
disableSheetsExternalRequests - Disables functions IMPORTDATA, IMPORTFEED, IMPORTHTML, IMPORTRANGE, IMPORTXML in Sheets

Config File Installation: 

Below is the JSON code to insert in the APP policy for extensions  (must set value to true for those blocking options that are desired):
 
{
  "disableImageWebSearch": {
    "Value": true
  },
 "disableImageAddbyURL": {
    "Value": true
  },
  "disableVideoWebSearch": {
    "Value": true
  },
  "disableExplore": {
   "Value": true
  },
  "disableSharing": {
   "Value": false
  },
  "disableLinks": {
   "Value": true
  },
 "disableDictionary": {
   "Value": false
  },
  "disableComments": {
   "Value": true
  },
  "disableFormsPublishing": {
   "Value": false
  },
  "disableGames": {
   "Value": true
  },
  "disableSheetsExternalRequests": {
   "Value": false
  }
}
 
Feel free to email [email protected] for support

This was developed by Matúš Koprda of https://blade.sk for Yeshiva Toras Chaim Toras Emes.            

How to install Hide Google Drive features?

You could download the latest version crx file or older version files and install it.

Preview of Hide Google Drive features

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Reviews of hide google drive features:

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Fidget December 5th, 2022

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

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P Marchie April 10th, 2022

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.

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Chicken GJ April 22nd, 2021

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.

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