Comment 3 for bug 1885664

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Lisa Seeto (lisaseeto) wrote :

Further research into this topic shows that adding 'no-cookie' might not provide the solution we are really looking for. This article details how YouTube uses other methods in order to track when the 'no-cookie' is present. https://axbom.blog/embed-youtube-videos-without-cookies/

The article also shows and example of what the "European Data Protection Service" has done to address this: https://edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/videos/cnn-regulators-probe-facebook-over-data-privacy-giovanni_en by having an overlay over the embedded content requiring the viewer to click to accept the T&C on YouTube.