As this worked for the Internet Archive, let’s try another one:
I am looking first an engineering contact at Youtube to troubleshoot the issue with them no longer returning metadata when Mastodon tries to fetch the preview for a video. It comes from their side and something changed a few weeks ago, and I would like to see how this can be fixed.
Fediverse, do your magic ✨
Yes, it's been like this now for a month or three.
But what's interesting is some instances can get the data and some can't. I've been trying to find a solution myself.
I assumed it might be YouTube trying to stop folks watching within Mastodon and avoiding their advertising? Just a guess.
Good luck.
@JSharp1436 @renchap
OH THAT'S GOOD NEWS IF GOOGLE YOUTUBE DOESN'T WORK HERE!
We long have needed to keep to the principles that we individually or Mastodon itself lost or didn't continue in blocking some obviously bad players working here (and helping people use better alternative software or alterntive links insetad.
NOT sitting back as Mastodon becomes an AD-FARMS for Mastodon users while putting all these google links 
If you cared you wouldn't do that at all!)... But who cares right if Google / YouTube and video - just users getting reaped here...
MILLIONS OF LINKS PER DAY 🔗 =
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BUT HOLD ON - AN ANSWER LOOMS OVER YONDER...
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@invidious helps us all filter google video pages !!! Horraah! EXAMPLES BELOW:
https://invidious.jing.rocks/watch?v=LP1V8G-JPLQ <---any video ID
or use geographically:
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=LP1V8G-JPLQ <---any video ID
IS IT SOOOO HARD FOR YOU TO SWITCH URLS?
Instead of letting your followers get tracked or advertised to just use an Invidious links within Mastodon so they are not link$ for Google: Score for the right team.
Invidious filtering let the google fans get the video but filters out the bad.
I'M AMAZED AT ALL YOU TECHIES 👀 WHO SEEM NOT TO CARE AND REALLY WANT GOOGLE YOUTUBE TO WORK HERE... WTF
DO BETTER
OR NOT AT ALL YOU GOOGLE-FOR-GOVERNMENT ENCOURAGERS ! 🔥
