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Cookie Option for YouTube Player

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

Friday, February 20, 2009
15 years ago5,745 views

There's a new option to enable delayed cookies when you embed a YouTube video.

<< Enabling delayed cookies means that the YouTube video player will not set any non-session cookies on the computer of a visitor (viewing the page on which the YouTube video is embedded). The YouTube video player may set non-session cookies on the visitor's computer once the visitor clicks on the YouTube video player. >>

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=141046

The option is pretty obscure to be displayed every time you generate the embedded code.

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Is the purpose of this option so that you don't have to mention the YouTube cookies in your own site's privacy policy?

In any case, why would you ever want to specify non-delayed cookies if you have the option for delayed cookies?

Gauhar [PersonRank 0]

15 years ago #

I still don't understand how this can be helpful, if at all...

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Maybe the option has something to do with:
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2009/03/white-house-videos-on-youtube.html
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/white-house-denies-it-is-shunning-youtube/

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