Seems like the automatic YouTube preview thumbnails have stopped working on Elektronauts, which makes YouTube links way less useful! Can we get them back, please?
[Mod edit] For the link to be turned automatically into a thumbnail:
you shouldn’t use the “link” button
you just have to paste the YT link with nothing else on the line (no initial space or following text for instance).
it’s been speculated that it may be a temporary block down to too many referrals
i don’t know, but perhaps they recover less revenue from external embeds - or maybe they have an algorithm which is for detecting something else and this site got lumped in there - no idea, nor sure when it’ll change
I pay for premium to get rid of all the ads so I’m not sure but I know there are definitely banner ads on embedded videos, if not inline ads. Not sure. But the idea of disallowing web embeds seems kind of crazy. It would break so much stuff and go against a lot of what youtube is - the ubiquitous video hosting and sharing platform. (Also, it’s not like they don’t benefit in any way from the tracking data they are gathering when you watch, wherever you are watching - I think the value is not necessarily only in the ads.)