Certain Youtube videos aren't embeddable on my site but they are here

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Kartoon reports that a specific YouTube video embeds correctly on Discourse Meta and Reddit but fails to embed on their own site, despite other videos working normally. They question how the same link behaves differently across platforms. Ed_S asks for the location of Kartoon’s Discourse host and provider, suggesting the issue might stem from how YouTube servers perceive the requests based on geographic location. jahan_gagan advises checking the site settings allowed_onebox_iframes and allowed_iframes as a potential cause for the embedding failure.

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Ok I just made a topic where I thought it was a Reddit vs. Discourse thing and I was trying to understand, however when I posted the video that wasn’t embedding on my site on this site

It embedded completely fine, whereas this same video on my site

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I assumed it was just one of the videos made unembeddable until i saw the same link was working on reddit, but more confusing it’s working HERE. How is that possible? Most (well, some) videos work completely normally on my site so nothing is wrong with the embedding, but clearly some of them are not.

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Where in the world is your discourse host? (And which provider are you using?) I wonder if the difference is be in the way YouTube servers get to see the requests at time of posting.

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Can you check your allowed_onebox_iframes and allowed_iframes site settings?