General Data Protection Regulation and YouTube

Harfenduo · May 2018

Important issue:

on 25 May 2018 the new General Data Protection Regulation becomes enforceable in the EU. It will be forbidden to embed Youtube videos without the nocookie link. There are plugins in Wordpress to change all Youtube urls to youtube-nocookies.com, but this does not work with the muffin builder. Are you planing to add this function to the video item? That would be great!

Bryan · May 2018

Hi,
thanks for your suggestion, I will pass this concern to the dev team.
cheers

Harfenduo · July 2018

Any progress? This is really important although few people know about it. If you use the video item, all youtube links are without the nocookie extension. This can lead to a cease and desist letter ("Abmahnung") and legal threats for every website which uses such links. Even for small websites this can be a big financial problem. Thank you!

Pablo · July 2018

Hi,

Please follow our update notes to be always informed about new things.

https://themeforest.net/item/betheme-responsive-multipurpose-wordpress-theme/7758048#item-description__changelog

Thanks.

Harfenduo · July 2018

Thanks for the answer but that's not very helpful. Why would I check the changelog if the nocookie feature isn't added to the video item? Or is it and I missed something?

Let me try a different approach: I want to use the muffin builder to embed youtube videos in my website. To follow the new laws I (and every other EU-citizen) have to use the nocookie link. How do I do this?

Pablo · July 2018

Please use the Iframe in column instead of video item.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42555450/how-to-embed-youtube-videos-without-cookies

Thanks.

Harfenduo · July 2018

Well, that's what I have been doing for the last two months... The problem with this – and I think you already know that – is: It's not responsive! Since you're unwilling to add a nocookie-feature to the video item (correct me if I'm wrong) I will create my own shortcode to embed youtube-links following the law. But thanks anyway

floriansehn · July 2018

@Harfenduo: Hast du das Problem gelöst bekommen? Wie hast du es umgesetzt? Ich habe das gleiche Problem.

LG, Florian

Bryan · July 2018

floriansehn

Please speak english here. It is important for other users to understand.

thank you

pablodelmedico · August 2018

Hi, i have the same requirement. I need to embed youtube videos using the nocookie url. Is there a way to do this in the integrated video shortcode inside the theme?

Thanks

Pablo · August 2018

Hi, BeTheme doesn't have this option.

Please use the Iframe in column instead of video item.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42555450/how-to-embed-youtube-videos-without-cookies

https://github.com/CookPete/react-player/issues/272

Thanks.

Harfenduo · October 2018

I wrote my own shortcode to solve this. If I want to embed a video, I can now use a shortcode like this: [youtube_nocookie id=1ySSn7UFxQA]

It also works with playlists: [youtube_nocookie id="videoseries?list=OLAK5uy_lO8luNsZTgvU6-NReuwMAdK-jZ-W7JD-k"]

Use the code snippets plugin and copy & paste this code:

function youtube_nocookie_shortcode( $atts ) {

$options = shortcode_atts( array (
'id' => ''), $atts );

$output = '<div class="responsive-video"><iframe width=""
height=""
src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/'.$options['id'].'"
frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media"
allowfullscreen></iframe></div>';
return ($output);
}
add_shortcode( 'youtube_nocookie', 'youtube_nocookie_shortcode' );

Finally you need some custom CSS:

.responsive-video iframe {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}

.responsive-video {
position: relative;
padding-bottom: 56.25%;
padding-top: 0px;
height: 0;
overflow: hidden;
}

General Data Protection Regulation and YouTube

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