4 ms·
Not a technical limitation. There are privacy considerations to embedding a YouTube video on a web page, and I’m guessing the WebTorrent developers used a stati
by henriquez 6y ago
Not a technical limitation. There are privacy considerations to embedding a YouTube video on a web page, and I’m guessing the WebTorrent developers used a static image video thumbnail as a courtesy to their privacy-conscious audience.
EFF has a workaround for the privacy issues with their MyTube script: https://www.eff.org/pages/mytube-limit-privacy-risks-embedded-video https://www.eff.org/pages/mytube-limit-privacy-risks-embedde... (it’s jQuery but could probably be implemented vanilla JS at this point)