# Have links to YouTube been disabled? **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [April 1, 2023, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958 "2023-04-01T01:35:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/21 "2023-04-01T03:11:21Z")
Discourse updated yesterday. The only thing I can find in the patch notes that relates to youtube is that they apparently fixed youtube videos automatically starting back up when you scroll up (something that folks here have ben complaining about). This change might be buried in a bug fix or a security fix. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/22 "2023-04-01T03:14:59Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Personally I’m dearly enamoured of the concept that when things work, they should be left the hell alone, but apparently not everyone shares this opinion. I’m on your side with this one, but the Discourse folks prefer to keep things current. I get it. If you require things to be updated to the latest versions, then you don’t have to go back and repeat tests for multiple versions. It makes development and support a lot easier. But it often does make things a royal pain for your users (us, in this case). ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/23 "2023-04-01T03:32:40Z")
What makes life hard for us poor users is that there are so many dependencies, and the interoperability that we tend to take for granted is sometimes shockingly poor. In the case of my tablet example (involving Firefox for Android) I suddenly got a message one day that Discourse deemed my browser obsolete and no good, and wouldn’t even establish a connection. So I updated Firefox. Discourse worked again, but various other important functions on sites like CNN were suddenly broken. These features now work but it took months of several more Firefox updates to fix them. It’s a constant battle. And then you run into updates that will no longer install because your hardware is deemed not good enough. With regard to YouTube, it’s notable that even those posters whose particular configuration lets them post the links say that they now can’t go back and edit anything in those posts, so something was definitely broken in a recent update. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/24 "2023-04-01T18:28:47Z")
I wonder if this is a YouTube thing rather than a Board thing. A few days ago my group tried to post one of our Yt videos to our website, just like we do ever week. No luck even with two of us working at it for 45 minutes ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/25 "2023-04-01T19:16:45Z")
Trying Brave (browser)… “An error occurred: Sorry, you can’t embed media items in a post.” ETA: Just tried on another discourse board … and it works there. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/26 "2023-04-01T23:26:47Z")
I got the same error message. Hmmmm…maybe an April Fools Day prank by the hamsters? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/27 "2023-04-01T23:34:56Z")
‘We’ shouldn’t have renamed MPSIMS to MPSIMS! ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/28 "2023-04-01T23:47:58Z")
FWIW, [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_GkVHhYnV90/hqdefault.jpg "The Sanity Clause A Night at the Opera") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GkVHhYnV90) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/29 "2023-04-01T23:54:55Z")
The above was Chrome on an iPad. Video displayed but it wouldn’t let me ETA this info. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/30 "2023-04-02T20:30:08Z")
Trying another link. > **[YouTube](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube)** > > YouTube is an American global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google and is the second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users, who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. As of May 2019\[update\], videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 I... A Wikipedia link about YouTube. Can I edit it after the fact? Yes. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/31 "2023-04-02T20:32:10Z")
Another experiment: an Imgur gallery link with a video. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/32 "2023-04-02T20:33:39Z")
I can’t edit that post. So, two video media embeds which cause the “media link” error. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/33 "2023-04-02T20:34:41Z")
Here’s an Imgur gallery link with just an image. [[Album] Libraries are about freedom ![](https://i.imgur.com/ZYXzihO.jpeg?fb "Libraries are about freedom") ](https://imgur.com/gallery/ADyCW4l) Can I edit it? Yes. So it seems like media links to video content is what is causing the symptoms. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/34 "2023-04-02T23:26:08Z")
In another thread I managed to post two youtube videos, but when went back in to edit the post, I got the error trying to save it. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/35 "2023-04-03T12:32:40Z")
Tried to post a Youtube vid this morning with zero luck. Not good. Somebody fix this mess. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/36 "2023-04-03T13:52:32Z")
https://www.youtube.com/embed/4m48GqaOz90?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=RD4m48GqaOz90 ETA: I now can post and edit (at least in this instant). Android phone. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/37 "2023-04-03T14:53:08Z")
I can’t. Same error :- “An error occurred: Sorry, you can’t embed media items in a post.” Laptop, Win 10, Brave browser ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/38 "2023-04-03T14:54:10Z")
https://www.youtube.com/embed/4m48GqaOz90?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=RD4m48GqaOz90 … but if copy Susan’s link - it works ! Bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/39 "2023-04-03T15:11:11Z")
testing nope, ain’t fixed yet for me either. Brave Browser v149.132, MacOS 10.14 Hmm… same fail under MacOS 13.2 (Safari)… … and also under Windows 64 / Edge… … iOS 15.5 (safari) likewise… ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/40 "2023-04-03T15:13:33Z")
https://www.youtube.com/embed/4m48GqaOz90?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=RD4m48GqaOz90 ^^^ this is a “youtu.be/” link rather than the “watch?” links I’ve been attempting… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958.md?page=3)