Open Youtube videos with Privacy Enhanced Mode

Hi Team,

I also wanted the privacy enhanced mode for masonry gallery images with custom link to videos.
I followed the instructions in
https://kriesi.at/support/topic/open-youtube-videos-with-privacy-enhanced-mode/
to the T.

Added the mentioned script replacement in child theme functions.php.

Changed line 39 in the avia-snippet-lightbox.js (copied to the child theme) to:

src: '//www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/%id%'

but… the a href in the page source still shows:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

when it should have become:

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/

Page cache and browser cache cleared many times, of course.

No idea why this happens. Can you help me out?

Thanks in advance.
Rob

• This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by rob2701.

Hi Nikko,

Thanks for looking into this. Details in private field.

Kind regards,

Rob

Hi Nikko,

I updated the theme to 4.7.5 (thanks for the update, Team!)
Commented out (in the child theme functions.php )the code switcher you provided above for using avia-snippet-lightbox.js in child theme instead of the parent theme one
Modified avia-snippet-lightbox.js in the parent theme and saved
Entered additional video (just to make sure nothing was cached somewhere in the database) using
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

Result is the same, the standard youtube link is NOT replaced with the youtube-nocookie link in the page source

The temp login credentials I put in private field earlier are still valid, if you want to take a look. I have left things like I described above.

Kind regards,
Rob

• This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by rob2701. Reason: some typo and grammar fixes

Hi Nikko,

Does not work for me, not even in parent theme and with js file merging and compression turned off.
Same result: still the standard youtube link in the page source.
Feel free to try it out on this development site, it’s a copy and well backed up. You have the link.
Thanks for your time.

Regards,
Rob

Additional info:
Updated child theme header.php to reflect 4.7.5 changes, just to make sure. Everything left to NOT use the child theme lightbox.js but made the change in the parent theme. Same result, no replacement of youtube URL in page source.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by rob2701. Reason: added additional info for clarity

Hi Nikko,

Thanks for checking this and for clarifying the unchanged ahref links in the page source for me, I did not understand that until now.

I see, so this last script for checking does the same as putting the format https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/<VIDEO-ID> directly in the custom link for the image in the portfolio item?
Indeed then the video does not open in a lightbox anymore but breaks out of the iframe. So, we can’t embed an iframe in a lightbox. Noted.

Parent theme:
I can confirm that when I put in the parent theme avia-snippet-lightbox.js, line 40:

src: '//www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/%id%?autoplay=0&ecver=2&showinfo=0&loop=1&rel=0&modestbranding=1&fs=0;'

and enter the normal “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<VIDEO-ID>” in the custom link in the gallery image, then indeed the video is served from youtube-nocookie (cookie inspection with developer tools).

I have done another test just now for the the replacement in the child theme (and of course adding your replacement script for avia-snippet-lightbox.js to the child theme functions.php) and now it seems that this also works, the video is served from the youtube-nocookie domain (cookie inspection with developer tools).
Enabling or disabling javascript merge/compress in Enfold Performance does not seem to make a difference.
I have no idea why the replacement in the child theme did not give that result the first times (in my tests and in yours).

Can you doublecheck if it also works on your installation just to make sure that doing it in the child theme works consistently?

function change_lightbox() {
  wp_dequeue_script( 'avia-lightbox-activation' );
  wp_enqueue_script( 'avia-lightbox-activation', get_stylesheet_directory_uri().'/js/avia-snippet-lightbox.js', array('avia-default'),2 ,true );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'change_lightbox', 100 );

Thanks for your time and help! Kind regards,

Rob

P.S.
Obviously, if the same result is positive in your test with the child theme change, then please close this as solved.
Thanks again for your support!

Added information:
Funny thing, on the live site I can only get this to work when setting the avia-snippet-lightbox.js changes in BOTH the parent theme and the child theme, while leaving the child theme replacement code for avia-snippet-lightbox.js intact.
But I definitely ALWAYS have to re-save the Enfold child theme options to view the effect.
Obviously making changes to the parent theme is not ideal, so I would appreciate if at some point you could come up with an explanation and a solution to only do it in the child theme.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by rob2701. Reason: Added additional information after testing some more

Hi Nikko,

That’s brilliant, what a good find!
Tested on both dev and live, it works great, problem solved completely.

Thanks again for the fix and for your help and great support!

Kind regards, Rob