<story><title>To download from Google Drive, you must enable third party cookies?</title><url>https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2423534?hl=en&amp;co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jefftk</author><text>This is wrong: try downloading something with Safari, which blocks third party cookies by default, and it works fine.&lt;p&gt;Instead, the problem is that downloading from Google Drive is using User-Agent sniffing to determine whether third party cookies are expected to be enabled, and choosing between implementations.&lt;p&gt;(Disclosure: I used to work at Google, but I don&amp;#x27;t know anything internal on this)</text></comment>
<story><title>To download from Google Drive, you must enable third party cookies?</title><url>https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2423534?hl=en&amp;co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rpadovani</author><text>I think it is because they use `googleusercontent.com` for content uploaded by users - that makes sense for security reasons, never ever let users upload content to your main domain.</text></comment>