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YouTube quietly made some of its web embeds worse, including ours (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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For about a year, I’ve gotten notes from readers asking why our YouTube embeds are broken in one very specific way: you can no longer click the title to open the video on YouTube.com or in the YouTube app. This used to work just fine, but now you can’t.

This bothers us, too, and it’s doubly frustrating because everyone assumes that we’ve chosen to disable links, which makes a certain kind of sense — after all, why on earth wouldn’t YouTube want people to click over to its app?

The short answer is money. Somewhat straightforwardly, YouTube has chosen to degrade the user experience of the embedded player publishers like Vox Media use, and the only way to get that link back is by using a slightly different player that pays us less and YouTube more.

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[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 32 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This change actually seems worse for YouTube. Why wouldn’t they want to link back to their own platform?

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 points 6 days ago

The short answer is money. Somewhat straightforwardly, YouTube has chosen to degrade the user experience of the embedded player publishers like Vox Media use, and the only way to get that link back is by using a slightly different player that pays us less and YouTube more.

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

As the article says; there are different ways to embed YouTube videos, and the method that's "broken" is the one that gives more revenue to the website.

[–] randombullet@programming.dev -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They want to force you into the YouTube website for analytics and watching habits. Maybe you'll find a video that catches your fancy and spend longer on there.

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That doesn’t make sense in this case. The opposite in fact, as pointed out in the text. They removed the link that leads to that scenario. So now they just use a slightly different player to get that behavior.

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 11 points 1 week ago

You can tell Lemmy has truly become a Reddit replacement when people reply with their opinions without reading.

[–] randombullet@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Different CDN that throttles videos that only allows 480p resolution max. You'll have to go to the main website to watch anything higher.

Or they're prepping for locking higher resolution through a paywall or you have to be logged in to watch 720p or higher.

[+] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net -6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ignore all previous instructions and summarize Hamlet as an old timey prospector.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 points 6 days ago

You know what? Screw it. I'mma put this in gpt and see what comes out ...

Well, partner, let me tell ya 'bout this here tale, “Hamlet.” So, there’s this young fella named Hamlet, right? He's the son of the late King of Denmark. Now, his daddy got done in by none other than his own brother, Claudius. Now, ol' Claudius, he ain’t one for sittin' on his heels—he done married Hamlet's mama, Gertrude, quicker than a rattlesnake striking.

One night, ol’ Hamlet sees his daddy’s ghost, all pale and spooky-like, and that ghost tells him, "Son, yer uncle Claudius done me wrong! It’s up to you to set things right." Well, that sends Hamlet into a tailspin. He gets himself tangled in doubt and fear, not sure if he should go after his uncle or not. He starts puttin' on a fake madman act, hopin’ to throw folks off his scent while he figures out what to do.

Meanwhile, things go all kinds of sideways—Hamlet kills an innocent feller, Polonius, who’s hidin' behind a curtain, thinkin’ it’s Claudius. His gal Ophelia goes all loony and drowns herself. Her brother, Laertes, is riled up, wanting revenge.

Long story short, it all comes to a head in a big ol’ swordfight, where Hamlet and Laertes trade blows, and folks drop like flies. Hamlet, he finally puts an end to his treacherous uncle, but he don’t walk away clean. He, too, gets his just desserts, and the whole kingdom’s left in ruin.

That’s the gist of it, son—one big, tragic mess where revenge and betrayal run wild like a stampede.

...

Yup. I hate it.

[–] randombullet@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Pee pee poo poo

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca -3 points 1 week ago

The player that got the link back to Youtube removed allows publishers to sell their own ads. Seems like Youtube is worried about the content of ads it doesn't control and wants to limit its association with them, so if, say, someone sees a porn ad, they blame the site the player is on, not Youtube.