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I'm sick of Youtube and their copyright bullshit stopping me sharing videos.
Are there any sites where I can upload videos without this bullshit and hotlink them within forums like I can here with YT?Video hotlinking would require auto-retrieving the video thumbnail at the very least, may be even auto-load an embedded player. Since this involves automated additional calls to an external host, it requires additional code in the forum software to identify and support such links.
On the risks side, the automated calls can be exploited for malpractice (stealing cookies, delivering unsafe content w/o user consent, artificially inflating viewership through autoplay). For theses reasons, forum sites are usually cautious even for hotlinking images, let alone videos, often going to extent of allowing only approved hosts.
And I am not even talking about stealing user information (analytics, PII from their browser) without consent and falling afoul of privacy laws, especially if the forum host and video host are in different jurisdictions.
That said, vimeo and dailymotion are some the video sites whose embedded players are widely supported.
And there are some gaming forums that support twitch. But as I said, this requires additional code in the forum software to support each of the sites, and unless there is a substantial benefit that outweigh the additional effort of integration and risk mitigation, that juice is often not worth the squeeze.
And, there is facebook video embedding which is also widely supported. Gosh! I should get more patient in gathering my thoughts before posting.
Interesting. I've not had many videos I hotlinked blocked. If so there are reasonable odds some other YouTuber might have ripped some of it for their channel.
Thanks guys. My problem wasn't hotlink blocking but Youtube's copyright enforcement. Even a 10 second one I made got rejected due to copyright. I was just looking for a site I could link that will open the video, and not block it due to copyright.
Maybe I should try Dailymotion. They don't seem that strict on copyright.
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