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We went the route inspired by gamingonlinux.com

So anywhere there is a YouTube embed we instead display a static thumbnail with 2 inline buttons underneath. 1 button to accept cookies and then load the embed and 1 button to view the video directly on YouTube in a new tab.

It works nicely and also pushed us to switch most of our videos to being first party hosted instead of YouTube.



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