On: YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable

[fallingsquirrel]

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[xd1936 → fallingsquirrel]

It looks like this solution is essentially this, but a little nicer looking (on hover animation, for example).

[phh → fallingsquirrel]

And this has the extra benefit that you don't give your website data to Google for free

[est → fallingsquirrel]

yeah this is the reason I don't understand the "lite-youtube-embed" project.

A simple one-liner would be much better.