Wow, even with my uBlock Origin enabled, that embedded video thumbnail showed up.

uBlock Origin here (same as eric3579 mentioned), but the issue wasn't technically an "ad", per se. I guess the YouTube terminology is "embedded endcard", which many channels use to promote other videos on their channel.

The uploader of the original embed did so, in spite of the fact that it completely obscured the ball, and largely obscured the kid's reaction.

So I guess I should have complained about it as "omnipresent (self?)promotion" as opposed to straight-up advertising. But anyway, @eric3579 's uBlock filter from that Reddit link worked to remove embedded endcards from all YT videos for me, and at least in my case I feel like nothing of value was lost by making that universal. Also prompted me to do google searches of reddit for other blocking scripts, with some mixed success. Found one that blocks all "sponsored content" on Slashdot (and works), and one that blocks autoplay video on fansided sports blogs (but unfortunately left the audio playing with no video window to mute/kill it in).


BTW, thumbs-up on changing the embed to one that doesn't have that issue, @Spacey (I think, although I guess with the new script I wouldn't know if it was still there). Wasn't intending to catch you in the crossfire of my bitching about it originally; I know it wasn't your choice to put that endcard in there.

I was so annoyed by this and wanted to figure out how to remove it. I found this reddit thread. No option in yt to remove them, but if you have uBlock (like i do) or Adblock Plus you can add a filter (listed in reddit thread) and it removes it from videos. Worked like a charm https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/5jkaa7/how_to_remove_annoying_next_video_overlay_at_end/?st=j79p9rk5&sh=5c529d77

(edit) Also as the reddit thread points out, it's the yt channels owner who decides to use embedded endcards.

Here is the video without the embedded encard https://youtu.be/onH-468lkqQ

Damn, sorry to hear that. I could go off on a frothing at the mouth rant at how bad it was, what we went through. To save money our original company, a nationwide US health insurance company, outsourced us right at merit raise time (nice touch, a-holes) to an off-shore company that would probably only ever meet expectations running an assembly line operation for building PCs.

They were out of their league taking over level 1 and 2 operations for a large company, which was already working through the pains of merging with other companies they had acquired. Instead of inspiring the legacy workers to stick around to make the transition work, their attitude was we were lucky the host company insisted we get first crack to reapply for "our" jobs. Like it was all one big assembly line and we could be easily replaced with someone with an A+ cert for $11\hr. The equivalent of pulling up to a storefront and having IT landscapers jump in the back of a pickup truck to work that day. Might work for an assembly line but not for a complex embedded IT infrastructure with 1001 local support quirks. They were completely clueless.

Add insult to injury, their internal processes were so bad, over the course of a year they asked us continually to remind them of the phone# of the iPhone they gave us and the serial# of the laptop they gave us. At least half a dozen times, it was fucking absurd. And when we were offered an incentive to help reduce the ticket log backup, they mailed unsigned money orders to fictional home addresses they had on record for us. With the stamp on the wrong part of the envelope for those lucky enough to receive their unsigned money orders. You had the option of mailing the money order back to get it signed (good luck getting it back) or committing a felony to get the money you legally earned, by not using the first option. Took me 7 months to finally get my money order, who knows where they originally mailed it. Their indifference during this whole mess was staggering, you had to badger management and HR like they were a deadbeat drunk brother-in-law who owes you money.

And they kept putting off the review\raise process until they finally offered us 50 cents an hour for the highest performers. I gave my notice the next day.

Sorry for the rant, it was such a colossal failure on all fronts, except no doubt for the amount the host company saved on IT during that time. But of course nobody is interested in capturing the countless hours of downtime and lost productivity introduced by these IT cost "savings". Last I heard they were putting the contract back out to bid before the scheduled end of the current contract, which doesn't surprise me. What a freaking waste.

I hope you find work soon, Ant.

http://videoplayer.vevo.com/embed/Embedded?videoId=GB2100301160&playlist=false&autoplay=0&playerId=62FF0A5C-0D9E-4AC1-AF04-1D9E97EE3961&playerType=emb
edded&env=0&cultureName=en-US&cultureIsRTL=false is *dead!

Yes, you can allow full screen in the embed code. YT did change this recently to disallow fullscreen by default on embedded videos (I dont know why). To enable fullscreen, you need to click the "share" link on the video you want to share, then click the embed tab. There, you will get the full embed code that includes the important "allowfullscreen" attribute. When you include that, embedded videos on videosift (and elsewhere) will have the functional fullscreen button. I just tested this with a new video.

Embedded video seems to be *dead even though http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/xerqg works.

@lucky760, my embedded https://videosift.com/video/Margaret-Wertheim-on-the-beautiful-math-of-coral submission seems to have problems like missing parts.

*blocked

watchable link here:

http://eachvideo.com/watch?v=z0NgUhEs1R4

(Not embedable though.)

After investigating this further, it looks like they turned this on in the latest release because they were worried malicious code could be hidden in the embeds people try to post. The likelihood of this is extremely slim if you are just embedding stuff to sites like this from sites like youtube, etc. So I just used the command line to turn off the auditor for now.

@dag, the same thing is enabled in the beta I believe. Since you are on a mac, I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't include the change since macs shouldn't be affected by malicious code in this fashion.

Not sure why my embedded video won't show up. See http://www.break.com/embed/1914163 for it.

*imnotdeadyet outdated youtube flash API used. Needs a new embedded code.

edit: After some clicky on the overlay text I got it to disappear and work. Any reason why were using this instead of the current embed? it is still on youtube right?

The packaging for every item must have an embedded RFID. An idea from about a decade back. One of the worries back then was that people could scan your garbage and learn a lot about you. People probably don't care about that nowadays.

I was educated in chemical engineering (bailed out of a PhD). Currently I work in embedded software.

They missed the part about the embedded second card reader (skimmer) and pin camera.