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The embed has to be changed to YouTube-nocookie (which is what happens when you enable privacy enhance mode when sharing embeds). But that might not entirely co

The embed has to be changed to YouTube-nocookie (which is what happens when you enable privacy enhance mode when sharing embeds). But that might not entirely comply with GDPR, as Google still does attempt other measures of tracking. So they should either introduce a cookie banner, find an alternative host that more strictly adheres to privacy concerns, or just host the video themselves in a video element.

kragen 2y ago
also you could just embed a self-hosted image that links to youtube. presumably if somebody clicks on the image with the youtube logo on it they know they're going to youtube i mean peertube is a great alternative, and nowadays browsers are pretty okay at just playing bare mp4 files if you re-encode them with ffmpeg -movflags faststart -c copy, but if for whatever reason you choose to use youtube instead there are some harm-reduction measures you can take
- KronisLV 2y ago
  > also you could just embed a self-hosted image that links to youtube. I’ve done this in the past by literally grabbing a screenshot of the video thumbnail (and the play button) and adding a link to that image. Sure, it won’t play in the same page and won’t be up to date with thumbnail or other presentation changes but I didn’t care - it was a small image that also didn’t include any executable code or privacy risks.
  - kragen 2y ago
    yes, exactly!
- Bluestein 2y ago
  Peertube. Now there's an idea whose time has come.-
- Animats 2y ago
  I'd like to see Peertube clients as widely available as Wordpress clients. They don't have to be federated. You can just host your own stuff.
  - kragen 2y ago
    any browser works as a peertube client; do you mean "peertube installations" and "wordpress installations", or are you talking about the software used to view videos?
0x2a 2y ago
More info: https://dri.es/how-to-remove-youtube-tracking https://dri.es/how-to-remove-youtube-tracking

kragen 2y ago

also you could just embed a self-hosted image that links to youtube. presumably if somebody clicks on the image with the youtube logo on it they know they're going to youtube i mean peertube is a great alternative, and nowadays browsers are pretty okay at just playing bare mp4 files if you re-encode them with ffmpeg -movflags faststart -c copy, but if for whatever reason you choose to use youtube instead there are some harm-reduction measures you can take

KronisLV 2y ago
> also you could just embed a self-hosted image that links to youtube. I’ve done this in the past by literally grabbing a screenshot of the video thumbnail (and the play button) and adding a link to that image. Sure, it won’t play in the same page and won’t be up to date with thumbnail or other presentation changes but I didn’t care - it was a small image that also didn’t include any executable code or privacy risks.
- kragen 2y ago
  yes, exactly!
Bluestein 2y ago
Peertube. Now there's an idea whose time has come.-
Animats 2y ago
I'd like to see Peertube clients as widely available as Wordpress clients. They don't have to be federated. You can just host your own stuff.
- kragen 2y ago
  any browser works as a peertube client; do you mean "peertube installations" and "wordpress installations", or are you talking about the software used to view videos?

0x2a 2y ago

More info: https://dri.es/how-to-remove-youtube-tracking https://dri.es/how-to-remove-youtube-tracking