Lazy videos does not work with youtu.be

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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 enabled on Meta, I’ll try to demonstrate:

Linked as https://youtu.be/Q1CMSV81_ws

Linked as https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q1CMSV81_ws

I don’t understand how the plugin works, so I don’t understand how this could be. Is it a bug? Did I configure something in a way that breaks only youtu.be?

I’m on af9fd33792. But the problem is way older.

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They look the same here.

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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.

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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 certainly prefer it if the Youtube Onebox would use youtube-nocookie.com, which may or may not help, but that’s a different topic.

Instead, I want to understand and fix Lazy Videos. It’s superior anyway. But I have no idea what to try.