Google enforces 3rd-party cookies on Drive

#1

Post by sodomak » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 10:56 AM UTC

Google enforces 3rd-party cookies on Drive
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Re: Google enforces 3rd-party cookies on Drive

#2

Post by meibo » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 11:36 AM UTC

This seems like a design decision on Drive and not an evil plot to hold your files hostage.

To make it work again, you can enable third party cookies exclusively for drive.google.com. Every modern browser will let you do this per-site, and if you change settings like this, I guess you should expect to do some manual tweaking once in a while.

Re: Google enforces 3rd-party cookies on Drive

#3

Post by Santosh83 » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 11:43 AM UTC

Isn't the Chrome team pushing to drop 3rd party cookies altogether as discussed a couple of days back, with many HN participants voicing fears that it will cripple the ad industry outside Google?

Re: Google enforces 3rd-party cookies on Drive

#4

Post by ChrisGranger » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 1:48 PM UTC

It appears the specific cookie blocking downloads is from googleusercontent.com and not a random 3rd party. I set my browser to allow session cookies from this domain and it allowed me to download my files.

Re: Google enforces 3rd-party cookies on Drive

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Post by sodomak » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 3:48 PM UTC

ChrisGranger wrote: post #4

It appears the specific cookie blocking downloads is from googleusercontent.com and not a random 3rd party. I set my browser to allow session cookies from this domain and it allowed me to download my files.

Good solution. But not for inexperienced users. They'll just enable everything to get their files. Google is doing great job for tracking companies (like Google itself).