By John Gruber
Lex.Games: Free daily word games from Lex Friedman. Not the weird Elon stan;
the real Lex Friedman.
Dries Buytaert:
After some research, I discovered that YouTube offers a privacy-enhanced way of embedding videos. Instead of linking to
youtube.com
, link toyoutube-nocookie.com
, and no data-collecting HTTP cookie will be sent. This is Google’s way of providing GDPR-compliant YouTube videos.
Now that Safari is including tracker counts and blocking ad trackers by default, I ran into this when I embedded the video for The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2020 this week — it doubled the number of “trackers” Safari flagged on DF from 1 to 2. No more.
(The remaining tracker is Google Analytics, which I’ve been meaning to replace for a while. On it.)
★ Saturday, 27 June 2020