Embed YouTube video via a cookieless domain

Since the EU Cookie Law and the new General Data Protection Regulation law the use of (tracking) cookies is controversial. You need a cookie consent feature when embedding YouTube videos at your website to comply with these laws...

I was looking for a way to embed YouTube videos without asking for consent to set cookies. Thought of, and created, very complex cookieless (sub)domains, iframes in pop-ups, etc... But the solution is *very* simple.............. TOO [beeeep] SIMPLE!!!

How to use

The solution is add "-nocookie" to the domain name!! youtube-nocookie.com is a domain that won't set cookies when you watch videos...

The usual method

Cookieless method

Working example

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3 Comments

29-08-2018

Rolf

Thanks for the addition, Arnoud

24-08-2018

arnoud

Thank you for this blog. Serving video's via the nocookie domain stopped some anoying advertisements seen on a view videos I shared.

I share most of my video's with the hd=1 parameter for non mobile and hd=0 for mobile devices, I use CGExtensions to determine the device type.

$cge = cms_utils::get_module('CGExtensions');
$browser = new Browser();
$ismobile = $browser->isMobile();

According to the player_parameters documentation "showinfo": Note: This parameter is deprecated and will be ignored after September 25, 2018.

https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters

14-08-2018

Evatur

How instagram video or image embed ??? Please your code

Embed YouTube video via a cookieless domain

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