When on mobile by default LYTE will load the YT vid earlier then when on desktop, which means YT resources will indeed be loaded even without the user clicking “play”. Additionallly by default the thumbnails are loaded from YT as well. This default behavior can be overridden by activating the “cache thumbnails locally” option John 🙂
hope this clarifies,
frank
Hi Frank,
Thanks for your reply. I done another test on desktop by enabling “cache thumbnails locally option and clearing the LYTE Cache.
When I ran a new scan on cookiebot.com it shows that youtube cookies are loaded. 6 trackers from youtube. 4 marketing and 2 necessary.
If I unpublish the page that contains the youtube video then my site is compliant.
Maybe this is something that needs attention in the plugin. Below is 5 of the trackers that get listed. Hope this helps.
YSCyoutube.comMarketingUnited StatesVISITOR_INFO1_LIVEyoutube.comMarketingUnited StatesYSCyoutube.comMarketingUnited StatesVISITOR_INFO1_LIVEyoutube.comMarketingUnited StatesVISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATAyoutube.comNecessaryUnited States
Thanks,
JohnO.
in that case I think LYTE was not correctly functioning on your site for some reason John and that a normal YT vid was loaded instead of a LYTE one .. :-/
It is simply a youtube video url added to an article as per the plugins instructions.
well, a lot can go wrong when using certain other plugins … 😉
check out https://blog.futtta.be/2023/08/10/about-to-see-wilco-live/ (my own little blog) where LYTE functions as intended and you’ll see no requests to youtube.com (until a visitor clicks “play” obviously) 🙂
frank
When on mobile by default LYTE will load the YT vid earlier then when on desktop, which means YT resources will indeed be loaded even without the user clicking “play”
Just wondering whether this has since been addressed. I don’t notice the image changing to the YouTube video (until I tap the image) when I am on mobile.
The reason I’m using the plugin, in combination with some text, is to be GDPR-compliant. But if this doesn’t work on mobile, it’s not a complete solution for me. (Note: I realise this is not the primary intent of the plugin.)
no, it still works that way @chrislt , but if you click the “cache thumbnails locally” option, the default behavior changes into not loading the YT vid early on mobile so that should help your use case.
Thanks, @optimizingmatters. I had already enabled that option, so that must be why the video isn’t loading ahead of someone tapping the image on mobile. Thanks!
that must be why the video isn’t loading ahead of someone tapping the image on mobile.
indeed, that’s the drawback :-/
No, it’s what I want. I don’t want the video to load (or, more importantly, any data to be shared with YouTube or any cookies set) until the person taps the placeholder image. So, it’s behaving how I need it to. Thanks!
