Youtube feed and statistics

  • I use YouTube feed plugin from Smash baloon to display videos on the site. The videos should play in the site and auto-start. When your plugin is activated this do not work, instead of playing in the modal window in the site, it just opens up a new YouTube window and play it in Youtube. (You can check at the bottom of the linked page – staging server for test)
    https://palema.dev.onpressidium.com/cancerformerna/pankreascancer/

    You can compare with live site how it should work; https://palema.org/cancerformerna/pankreascancer/

    Secondly: I selected “Do you want to ask consent for statistics?” : “no”, but the statistics selector still shows up under settings and are disabled per default. I would like to have it either enabled per default or preferably – if possible (and I believed the setting I selected fixed this) not giving the option to turn off statistics.

    The very reason we swith plugin is that our previous started to block all statistics if the users did not accept all – and it turned out that 90% of the visitors ignored the cookie banner…

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  • Plugin Contributor jarnovos

    (@jarnovos)

    Hi @alhbin,

    As for your first question, I think this is intentional behavior of the Smash Balloon plugin and that this happens due to the GDPR settings in the YouTube Feed plugin. As autoplaying YouTube video’s would require consent for at least the Marketing category, linking to the URL instead of embedding negates the need for this consent.

    Second question, the “Do you want to ask consent for statistics” setting only manages consent for anonymous statistics (which additionally requires consent in Germany, Austria, Belgium & Spain). So, if you haven’t ticked the three checkboxes to indicate that your Analytics/GTM implementation is GDPR-proof, the Statistics category will remain active as the setting only only concerns anonymous statistics. Schermafbeelding-2021-10-13-om-11-39-02

    The effect of this setting shall be clarified further in the 6.0 release of the plugin.

    Please note: pre-checking categories will make your site not compliant. If you would want to “pre-check” the categories regardless, you may opt to use this solution to do so: https://github.com/Really-Simple-Plugins/complianz-gdpr-autocheck

    Hope it helps!
    Kind regards,
    Jarno

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by jarnovos.
    Thread Starter Anders Alhbin

    (@alhbin)

    Hi and thanks for answer.

    YouTube feed do have settings for this and it is set to “automatic” saying this:

    Complianz by Really Simple Plugins detected
    Some Feeds for YouTube features will be limited for visitors to ensure GDPR compliance until they give consent. What will be limited?

    YouTube Player API will not be loaded.
    Thumbnail images for videos will be displayed instead of the actual video.
    To view videos, visitors will click on links to view the video on youtube.com.`

    But even if I accept all cookies these limitations seems to remain. So the question is if I need to add some settings in your plugin to make it work??

    Is there then a way to collect at least anonymous statistics for these that do not consent?? That would be valuable so you at least can see the number of visitors to your site…

    Plugin Contributor jarnovos

    (@jarnovos)

    Hi @alhbin,

    The GDPR functionality in the YouTube element seems to work fine when I test this on my end in an Incognito window, prior to consent a link to YouTube, upon giving consent a video player on-page.

    As for anonymous statistics, you could answer the question “Do you want to ask consent for Statistics” with No. Alternatively, if you indicate that you don’t target Germany/Austria/etc. under Wizard > Visitors, consent for anonymous statistics will not be deemed necessary.

    Kind regards,
    Jarno

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