

But no matter, Drive will try and check this all the time anyway. In this website's case, this check is useless as all videos are public and hence, don't need to know who you are to be played. This is because Drive is not usually used to share things publicly. Indeed, Google Drive needs to know what your Google account is to check if you have permission to watch shared videos. In short, because of a bad handling of Safari's Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) by Google Drive. Scroll down to the "Privacy & Security" section and un-toggle "Prevent Cross-Site Tracking".Your only option on iOS/iPad OS is to turn off Cross-site tracking prevention on Safari to watch the video - you can safely turn it back on after watching. Reload the page and the video should now play fine. Go to Safari Preferences > Privacy and uncheck "Prevent cross-site tracking". Option 2: Turn off "Prevent cross-site tracking" on SafariĪnother workaround is to (temporarily) turn off the Safari feature that is causing the problem. If you can switch to a different browser, such as Chrome or Firefox, you should be able to play the video without hiccups. The issue is due to a poor support of one of Safari's privacy features (see below for details). How to fix On Mac/PC Option 1: Use Chrome or Firefox
