Google Workspace Updates made an announcement regarding third-party cookie requirements in Google Drive with the following notice:
Starting January 2, 2024, Drive will start serving downloads without requiring third-party cookies that are embedded on third-party websites. This is separate from downloading files from Drive.
If you have specific workflows in place that rely on Drive’s download URLs or use an app which relies on Drive’s download URLs, you’ll need to switch to the Drive and Docs publishing flows by January 2, 2024.
The notice states that "If you... use an app which relies on Drive’s download URLs, you’ll need to switch to the Drive and Docs publishing flows...", but it is unclear how specifically this relates to Drive's third-party cookie support. This lack of clarity is the foundation of my question:
I maintain a web application that uses iframes to embed content from Google Drive for presentation purposes, using download URLs (generated using the "Share" link) as follow e.g.
<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/ABC/embed" .../>
The content permissions are set to Anyone with the link:Viewer - as such the content is publicly accessible (read-only) without requiring being logged into a Google account.
The context of the notice is around Drive's use of third-party cookies, however I am unsure of how Drive works under the hood w.r.t. sharing content and whether this notice in some way applies implicitly to my use-case. More specifically, it is unclear to me which "specific workflows" the Google notice refers to and whether my use-case will be one of the workflows impacted by this change.
Does anyone know which specific workflows the notice refers to, and whether my use-case is considered one of these workflows?
I posted a version of this same question on the Google Help Community Forum with no responses so far.
