When you set a Google Drive file to "Anyone with the link can view" and post it on forums, social media, or a public client portal, web scrapers and malicious bots rapidly crawl the link. Hundreds of automated bot hits can quickly trigger Google's undisclosed 24-hour egress bandwidth threshold, causing the link to fail with "Download quota exceeded for this file" for real human visitors.
Never share raw Google Drive links publicly on high-traffic websites. Instead, front your Google Drive assets with an edge proxy like SaveInDrive or Cloudflare Turnstile. The proxy verifies human visitors using invisible cryptographic challenges before forwarding the download stream, completely shielding your Google Drive files from automated scrapers.