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As a user I love stricter privacy. As a developer working for a platform company whose content (video) is embedded by thousands of websites, I hate this particu
by jakub_g 6y ago
As a user I love stricter privacy. As a developer working for a platform company whose content (video) is embedded by thousands of websites, I hate this particular change:
- more difficult to analyze weird / fraudulent embedders
- more difficult to debug issues ("what's the sample URL to repro? no sample URL in logs, only top-level of the domain, but I don't find our embed anywhere ¯\_(ツ)_/¯")
Funny thing: you can't just tell your embedding partners to change the embed code and use `referrerpolicy=...` on the iframe, to expose the full URL, because it's not GDPR-compliant apparently. So you need user's consent first. But how do you obtain user's consent before you render HTML on the server? :) ("GDPR wall" is not compliant either)
Life sucks, I guess. But it's for greater good, and I guess the companies will somehow survive.