plugins/rst: Set referrerpolicy for embedded YouTube#54
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YouTube seems to have tightened their policy and now requires us to send a referrer header when embedding YouTube inside an iframe: > API Clients that use the YouTube embedded player (including the YouTube > IFrame Player API) must provide identification through the HTTP Referer > request header. In some environments, the browser will automatically set > HTTP Referer, and API Clients need only ensure they are not setting the > Referrer-Policy in a way that suppresses the Referer value. > YouTube recommends using strict-origin-when-cross-origin Referrer-Policy, > which is already the default in many browsers. https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/required-minimum-functionality#embedded-player-api-client-identity So let's set the referrer policy on the iframe accordingly. Signed-off-by: Chris Fiege <cfi@pengutronix.de>
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Sounds good to me. I assume you've tested this, so ack.
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YouTube seems to have tightened their policy and now requires us to send a referrer header when embedding YouTube inside an iframe:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/required-minimum-functionality#embedded-player-api-client-identity
So let's set the referrer policy on the iframe accordingly.
To test this locally with the live-server one can add this header to the template to simulate a web-server sending a
no-referrerpolicy:<meta name="referrer" content="no-referrer">.