Hey Google cut the shit, your fucking up my Gmail experience
I have been using gmail since the early beta invite stage. It was wonderful for years, but it has been getting worse and now you are fucking up my email flow. The beauty of Google was that you used to give me what I wanted and then got out of the way. Nowadays, you are getting in my way and I can't get what I want without these terrible services. I understand why you need to have Google Drive, Google Viewer, Google Photos, Google+ but they are shit services. To me, there's nothing more annoying than receiving Gmail attachments as Google Drive, Photos, Documents, Google links etc. If you insist on people using your upload to Google features, let me turn these features off when receiving. I am sure you can script up a function and create a 'detach incoming attachments from google services' setting option. I cannot stand when services light-box things. You know what's great about Dropbox? They get out of the way. This is why I love them. I hope they don't decide to follow because bundling subpart services is terrible experience. People use Gmail because it has your powerful search. Take this away and you have nothing. Keep adding walled-features and you will have more unhappy users, but I know you don't care what people think. Nobody should have to figure out where the upload paperclip icon is. You would be surprised at how many non techie people ask how to upload. A great spot would be right on the good old toolbar. Floating icons are lame. Personally, I'd rather see more ads in my email than this crap. Why? Because they are not in my way.