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Fixed the broken youtube embeds

  1. #1
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    So most of you probably noticed the majority of embedded youtube videos failed to load. This is apparently because we were disabling referrer strings being sent to YT and it threw a hissyfit about not being able to spy on users for most its videos.

    Essentially your browser (with this website's blessing) will now disclose that embedded videos are being viewed from "niggasin.space" (but will not specify the specific page, or anything about your identity on this site) to youtube when you view a video. If you're logged into a google account in your browser, google can correlate this request with your google account (potentially a problem if you're logged into your employer's gsuite shit). If you aren't comfortable with the security implication here, there is a "Enable videos embedded in posts" setting which you can find on your profile page. If you turn this off, "embedded" videos will be rendered as a simple link which won't disclose this information unless clicked, and even then your browser's referrer settings can alter the behavior.

    Which is kind of a bitch move on YT's part but w/e, at least now embedded videos work again if you want them to.
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  2. #2
    totse2118 Space Nigga [my ci light-haired pongee]
    we truly cannot afford to hire lanny as a developer he is a big bucksier and is so highly skilled that he chooses what projects he wants to work on and they beg him to come on board but he says "NO thank you" fixes their code and then goes and brews another barrel of whiskey and cooks a home cooked italian dish just like his mamamia used to make "STIR THAT PASTA SAUCE SO IT DOESN'T BURN I'LL SOAK THE NOODLES IN BEER"
    (yes, I stalk his github)
    #lilsportyshomelife

    nezxt comes tiktok and youtube short embedding folx
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  3. #3
    A College Professor victim of incest [your moreover breastless limestone]
    we luh yuh sportyy , we luh yuh-luh yuh-luh yuh-sportyy

    #LilSportysHomeLife
  4. #4
    this could be a problem in the near future if and when google-judetube decided to restrict access to it from "deviant" and "blasphemous" (against niggers) sites and start filltering domain names.
  5. #5
    Kafka sweaty
    I thought this was already happening. Have I been living in a parallel world?
  6. #6
    Kafka sweaty
    Sometimes I get advertisements for things I mention on nis. So they either know my identity here or are tracking my phone keypad.
  7. #7
    Rape Monster Naturally Camouflaged
    Kill yourself
  8. #8
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Originally posted by vindicktive vinny this could be a problem in the near future if and when google-judetube decided to restrict access to it from "deviant" and "blasphemous" (against niggers) sites and start filltering domain names.

    Yeah, but not much we can do about it. We might just not get to have YT embeds at some point but ehh, such is life. The original motivation to disable referers was because wariat is a little bitch and cried to imgur and they used them to disable embedding on here
  9. #9
    is there a way to spoof the refferers ?
  10. #10
    Rape Monster Naturally Camouflaged
    Originally posted by Lanny The original motivation to disable referers was because wariat is a little bitch and cried to imgur and they used them to disable embedding on here

    You should have banned him for that.
  11. #11
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Originally posted by Rape Monster You should have banned him for that.

    I agree and have come to regret not doing so
  12. #12
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Originally posted by vindicktive vinny is there a way to spoof the refferers ?

    Yes, although I can’t do it for users, it’s a browser behavior. Chrome has an extension for it here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/referer-control/hnkcfpcejkafcihlgbojoidoihckciin and is probably a good idea just in general. But then chrome is funneling your browser history to Google anyway so I’m not sure how much good it’ll do you. But definitely a good idea if you’re not using a CIA browser.
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  13. #13
    Speedy Parker Black Hole [my absentmindedly lachrymatory gazania]
    Originally posted by Kafka Sometimes I get advertisements for things I mention on nis. So they either know my identity here or are tracking my phone keypad.

    They live in your walls
  14. #14
    aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
    lol I posted about this a while ago, assumed I was wrong but it turns out LANNY WAS JUST DRUNK
  15. #15
    Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    Originally posted by Lanny I agree and have come to regret not doing so

    It's not too late.
  16. #16
    A College Professor victim of incest [your moreover breastless limestone]
    actually IT IS
  17. #17
    totse2118 Space Nigga [my ci light-haired pongee]
    what if it didn't embed it but instead a server robot takes a low res screenshot of the thumbnail and auto embeds that as a img bbcode tag but when you click it, it's the link to the youtube video

    here is an example now imagine instead if it was this picture instead of that shaking text

    THE LINK BELOW IS A YOUTUBE VIDEO
    https://pomf2.lain.la/f/rzn3d95p.png IM A PICTURE!!!
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