Heads-up for the #PeerTube community, it appears Google has been blocking many tools/IP ranges that try to synchronize with YouTube. At least for the creators on #tilvids this is a massive challenge, because they can no longer sync THEIR content on multiple platforms, requiring them to manually upload to both TILvids AND #youtube We appreciate our creators going the extra mile, and please remember this is why it's so important to support alternative platforms.
https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/6522
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Because of the CORS settings on Google’s servers would tell your browser to not go forward with the request.
There are two ways it could eventually be possible:
By opening the video in a new page/tab that only contains the video, with the YouTube player, which defeats the purpose a bit.
Why not?
Because of the CORS settings on Google’s servers would tell your browser to not go forward with the request. There are two ways it could eventually be possible:
I haven’t checked the CORS headers for YouTube videos but wouldn’t access have to be fairly open to allow embedded videos to work?
For that they use iframes, which have a different security system.