I noticed today that there is flag for "privacy mode" in the "customize" options menu for embedding a youTube video. According to google this feature is designed to give user's more control:
We've been working to give our users more options and control over these cookies. One such option is the privacy-enhanced mode for our embed player. This mode restricts YouTube's ability to set cookies for a user who views a web page that contains a privacy-enhanced YouTube embed video player, but does not click on the video to begin playback. YouTube may still set cookies on the user's computer once the visitor clicks on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode.
Awesome, thanks for the option. But hey, wait. If privacy mode "on" means that you don't set cookies when a "user" views the page (instead when they actually click play), the past, and often current method, privacy mode "off", is that you set cookies on a "user" machine every time someone views a web page with a youtube video embedded (regardless of whether or not they actually click play).
Ok, so tracking cookies, no big deal right. Old news. Just wanted to point that out.
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