There's a few subjects on this already but none seem to give a definitive answer to the problem I am faced with. I am implementing youtube videos on a website using the youtube iframe api with the following code :
this.player = new YT.Player($player, {
wmode: 'transparent',
height: '100%',
width: '100%',
host: 'https://www.youtube-nocookie.com',
playerVars: {
wmode: 'transparent',
showinfo: 0,
autohide: 1,
rel: 0
},
videoId: this.video_id,
events: {
'onReady': ()=>{
},
}
})
Videos are correctly being loaded with the www.youtube-nocookie.com domain. But cookies are still being loaded as other posts have mentioned. I am also getting the following warning in my console.
On a side note. Other posts mention that the cookies are only supposed to load when the user plays the video. I however get these errors as soon as I load the page. The strange thing is that I still get the 1st error even when I'm not loading any videos, just adding the api script to my page.
So the question being : is this method compliant with GDPR practices? I am safe with this alone or do I need to go the extra mile and block the loading of the api until the user accepts the use of data collection? Why does youtube give use this so-called privacy mode if cookies are still being injected into my page?
