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Chrome seems to have made one change recently -- maybe related to this? -- that made it so YouTube videos embedded in other sites no longer have you logged int
by robbrown451 7y ago
Chrome seems to have made one change recently -- maybe related to this? -- that made it so YouTube videos embedded in other sites no longer have you logged into YouTube.
This means that if you have YouTube Premium, where you pay $10/mo so you don't have to see ads on YouTube videos, you still see them when the video is on someone else's site. Oddly, it still works as it used to in Brave.
Since this is sort of cross domain cookie related (YouTube uses an iFrame typically when embedded, whether embedded by pasting html or by using the JavaScript API), does anyone know why this happens? If you ask YouTube Premium support, their canned answer is "we don't guarantee no ads except on the YouTube site." But they can't explain why it works with no ads in non-Chrome Browsers.
- zamadatix 7y agoWorked for me just now (tested a YouTube video on Reddit in Chrome and watch later had my account name on hover + no ads). You sure you don't just have 3rd party cookies blocked? Could be a staged rollout of something but 3rd party cookies is usually what causes it for me since I whitelist sites for those.
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- nkozyra 7y agoIs that cross-domain cookie related? I thought by virtue of being in the sandbox that is the iframe it has access to the cookies associated with the domain(s). It sounds like an excuse to serve you ads, honestly.
- lima 7y agoIt would break other features (like the "Watch Later" button) too. According to Occam's Razor, this is very likely to be a bug rather than a conspiracy against YouTube Premium customers.
- robbrown451 7y agoI agree it is probably a bug, partly since other browsers aren't affected.
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- Buge 7y agoAre you using stable Chrome or Beta/Canary? Have you modified any of your Chrome flags?
- robbrown451 7y agoRegular stable Chrome. And the issue is the same on my mac and my chromebook.