Is this an early Aprils fools joke?
very sensible IMO considering gmail itself going to be serving (although is it from the google domain?) it so it could potentially bypass the SOP
No joke. It's been in the tech news a couple of times over the last month or so.
Just rename the extension to .txt.
I suppose it's not too bad, just need to change my habits and use drive instead 😁
Anything that could be errantly (or not) executed in the client should be zipped up, imo.
It was zipped up. Google went in and scanned the contents and said "Tut, tut, naughty, naughty"