The Lazy Videos plugin does not work with Youtube short URLs. It does work with regular Youtube URLs. Since regular Youtube embeds ceased working (conflicts with my Referrer-Policy), Lazy Videos would at least present a preview instead of the useless error 153. Not sure whether Lazy Videos is enabl…

You might find some helpful suggestions in I have issue to embed Youtube video - YouTube Error 153 . I wonder what all these forums have in common that makes them behave differently than Meta.

Thanks, I already have a very solid idea why it happens for me: Because I have Referrer-Policy: same-origin set. This means no Referer for embedded Youtube, breaking the embed. A similar effect could occur with strict tracking protection settings in browsers. That’s fine though. I mean, I would cer…

Lazy videos does not work with youtu.be

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Falco (Falco) December 1, 2025, 6:03pm 2

They look the same here.

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Lazy videos does not work with youtu.be

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