<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>newscracker</author><text>If you’re anyway using Google Drive, you could use Firefox with the Google Container extension [1] to limit Google’s tracking activities across Google tabs to this container. Also install Cookie AutoDelete [2] and let the cookies, cache, local storage, etc., get cleared soon after you close the tabs.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;firefox&amp;#x2F;addon&amp;#x2F;google-container&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;firefox&amp;#x2F;addon&amp;#x2F;google-contai...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;firefox&amp;#x2F;addon&amp;#x2F;cookie-autodelete&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;firefox&amp;#x2F;addon&amp;#x2F;cookie-autode...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>