Hey everyone, I’m having an issue with YouTube embeds on my Netlify site. I’ve done some research into this and I think the problem might be to do with the referrer policy enforced by Netlify but I don’t know enough about this to be able to fix the problem. When I visit the site, I get a “video un…

This is a bit of a strange one, it seems. Whenever I embed the file using Netlify Dev (so a local emulation of the Netlify platform) I get the same error. When I run my site without Dev, it works ok. I tested a couple of other random videos. Some work, others don’t. No errors in console, no blocking…

Glad you were able to recreate it and it’s not just me, but where does that leave us?

Unfortunately not @chrish Unlike @tomrutgers I haven’t had any success recreating the issue locally. :thinking:

Shoot! I’m getting some heat from the client about it but really drawing a blank on how to fix it…! @coelmay

Weirder still, on this page one of the videos loads but the other doesn’t: Noise International Music & Entertainment magazine bringing you the best from UK, Europe & America but the same video loads fine in Sanity CMS [image] …

I think you can have more luck by posting it on some other forums too like StackOverflow or Google’s forums. If some of them are able to point this out to an issue from Netlify end, we can find a solution for that, because at this stage, it’s producing mixed results for everyone, thus hard to debug. …

Thanks for the response @hrishikesh — I’ll try posting this on Stack Overflow like you suggest (I’ll edit this post and link it here when I do). It’s worth pointing out that I tried deploying this website to Gatsby Cloud, and the same page loaded on their platform doesn’t suffer this issue (it’s de…

As @coelmay suggested above, if it’s really a headers thing, you could configure custom headers and try. But as to what the headers would actually be, that might be answered on the other forums that I mentioned. Furthermore, I doubt this really being a server issue as many users are displaying YouT…

I posted the question on Google’s YouTube Community and Stack Overflow. Hopefully someone knows something as I’m stumped https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/116075355/what-are-the-security-headers-required-when-using-embedded-videos?hl=en https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68259678/youtube-…

YouTube embeds "video unavailable" — works fine on localhost

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Jomoka September 12, 2021, 5:16pm 16

Hi !

Find the issue : “gatsby-plugin-netlify”.

Just have to switch config var “mergeSecurityHeaders” to false, view https://www.gatsbyjs.com/plugins/gatsby-plugin-netlify/

Thanks

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