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Hi foliovision team,
if I take care about GDPR then I have to ask my website visitors to give their consent to show videos on my website which are not self-hosted. E.g. do I need the consent BEFORE showing a Youtube video on my website – BEFORE my website gets in contact with Youtube.
For this their is an often used WP plugin called Borlabs Cookie. Only if users allows “media cookies”, Youtube and Vimeo videos are shown on the website (embedded per Iframe).
I’m using FV Player Pro on one of my websites. FV Player shows videos from bunny.net Stream. It would be great to have a tutorial how to setup Borlabs Cookie & FV player, so that the player is also only shown, if the visitor has given his consent. I don’t know how yet, because FV Player seems not to generate an IFrame.
Christian
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Hello Christian,
thank you for your question and for using FV Player!
We do not support this yet. However, this is a very interesting suggestion. I will discuss your inquiry with my team and we’ll get back to you.
As of now, FV Player itself only uses the cookies for remembering the video position, sound level, playback speed and preferred video quality.
For YouTube videos embedded in FV Player, we do use the youtube-nocookie.com domain by default.Thanks,
Maria
Hi Christian,
Thanks for the suggestion.
We are not particularly fussed about preventing people from seeing videos unless they have agreed to cookies. The whole cookie law is horribly abused by large companies (I spend twenty minutes a day customising disagreement with cookies just to browse – I do use three computers and a mobile phone, but it’s crazy nonetheless).
If this feature is important to you and you’d like us to develop this for your website, we’d be happy to do it as custom development. That’s what’s great about FV Player. It’s freestanding code so your site can have exactly the features you need or want.
Hi Alec,
I agree with you – in general: the whole cookie consent noise is ridiculous and makes life harder for small companies like us. So much to read, so much to ask, so much to do. This is also true for whole GDPR stuff.
On the other side we have to do this to avoid conflicts.
I thought there may be a solution/tutorial without extra development afford.
Before thinking about this, I would ask the developers of the Cookie Consent Plugin, if they could integrate FV Player in their defaults.Thank you
Christian
Hi Christian,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. It seems that you are on the right track having Cookie Consent not show YouTube links
FV Player does play through the YouTube API so I’m not sure we actually do violate the cookie laws as any cookies should be first party and non-marketing – Cookie Consent should be preventing your website from setting first party cookies until consent is agreed.
Another alternative is that you could audit any cookies set by your site and erase those cookie if the reader chooses not to agree to cookies.
The difficulty with FV Player trying to not set cookies until allowed is that there are literally dozens of cookie assent software companies. It could turn into a full-time job just managing cookie assent integration. If you find out that there’s a general standard we can follow which all the cookie assent software developers embrace, we would seriously consider adding that code.
Hello Christian,
I found add that the youtube-nocookie.com domain is used for YouTube only in FV Player Pro Beta currently. Here’s how to switch to that: https://foliovision.com/player/basic-setup/switching-fv-player-pro-to-beta
Please let us know if it helps and then we can make it part of the release version.
Thanks,
Martin
Hi Martin,
I do not embed youtube videos with FV Player right now – I do only embed videos hosted on bunny.net with FV Player.
Christian
Hi Christian,
Thanks for your note about YouTube use. The last email still applies:
The difficulty with FV Player trying to not set cookies until allowed is that there are literally dozens of cookie assent software companies. It could turn into a full-time job just managing cookie assent integration. If you find out that there’s a general standard we can follow which all the cookie assent software developers embrace, we would seriously consider adding that code.
Hi Alec,
unfortunately I do not know such a general standard. I only recognize, that plugin Borlabs Cookie seems to be a very often used solution to manage cookie consents in WordPress. Even lawyers use it.
Christian
