If you disable third-party cookies, you can't download files or view videos in Google Drive without a workaround.

This is because the download is from googleusercontent.com while your browser remains at drive.google.com the whole time - and to download private files, googleusercontent.com expects you to have a login cookie. If you block third-party cookies the download gets stuck in a redirect loop, sending you to get a cookie over and over again.

Google is aware of this but hasn't fixed it.