"Please grant permission to Native Access to install dependencies" NTK - Google is FULL - fix it!

@Jojo123

I thought you were just hitting out at us like the usual NI thought police here, until I re-read your posts.

That is always a good choice, since English is not my mother language and, though i speak them very well, my whole thought process is in Greek, so the way i express my self could be slightly different than most people from the West are use to, possibly more complex than necessary in its structure and might not be fully accurate (grammatically). I do my best though. :-)

What I find really annoying is people assume its the consumers fault pretty much most of the time.

I was actually talking about their devices (computers etc.) and, by long experience (i administer Windows on a semi-professional level, since 1998) i can tell you, yes it is. Most of the times because of lack of knowledge. They assume that everything is working "out of the box" but they forget that, every software is heavily depending on the operating system. If the system is just left to its luck and not setup and tune-up correctly, it will have problems, sooner or later.

It is TOTALLY ON NI about the Google Drive debacle.

No argument here. Yes it is, as i already mentioned few comments above!

There are scads of people who cant download stuff because the quota has been exceeded or too many people have asked for a certain file, or in my case add to that "network problems".

I never have such problems, since years ago, not just with NI but with any software. Also most people i know and also a possible 80% of our members here! So, again… wrong or incomplete devices settings most of the times. If the problem is persisted. If not, then yes, it is NI servers issues (and fault)!
In your case, could be:

• A very strict firewall (use medium or "recommended" settings, they are fine!),
• Denial of cookies (always keep your functional cookies when you clean-up browser cache),
• IP Address Conflicts (90% of the times it happens if you have a static IP address, or if you use a 3rd party Dynamic DNS Service),
• Duplicate IP Addresses (when you have 2 devices and they attempt to share a single IP).

…to say the most common. And as i wrote above, obviously sometimes are NI servers faults.
But, you can not blame anyone with a 100% fault, either is a user either is a provider (simple wisdom from life experience). There is no such thing as an "100% one side fault". Never recorded such thing, in the entire human history. That's all I'm saying. :-)

…ongoing back and forth with support for months which turned out to be the most frustrating and irritating experience ever because of this same issue…

You have a very valid point here and i fully understand the frustration. NI Support needs a big improvement! They need to bring some people with developer knowledge and not just employees with a generic good knowledge who however, they just pass the requests to the developers team (because this is what is happening actually)… If there is someone to blame here is not NI employees or developers but the NI owners (click the spoiler!).

Can you confirm or not if we need to "sign into Google" to get any downloads?

I am not a NI employ but I am a long time Google user (since 2001) so, yes i can confirm that, not just to download but to do literally anything Google-related (apart seen youtube videos or read blogger sites), you must sign-in to your Google account!
Please read this. ←——

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