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diff --git a/content/2023/this-site-no-longer-spies-for-youtube.md b/content/2023/this-site-no-longer-spies-for-youtube.md deleted file mode 100644 index 8c3da8b5..00000000 --- a/content/2023/this-site-no-longer-spies-for-youtube.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,76 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: "This Site No Longer Spies for Youtube" -category: meta -abstract: Linking to YT in place of embeding is better for page load sped -date: 2023-02-02T14:58:42+01:00 -year: 2023 -draft: false -tags: -- meta -- Youtube -- Google -- speed-index -- Wget -- ImageMagick ---- -This site no longer spies for google - -Say what you will about Youtube; it is the de facto webpage for video content. Unfortunately, there is much to say, primarily negative, but more on this later. Today I want to make this blog a bit better. - -Let's use [Google](https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmichal.sapka.me%2F2023%2Fcradle-of-filth-her-ghost-in-the-fog%2F) to analyze the performance of [one of my recent posts](/2023/cradle-of-filth-her-ghost-in-the-fog/). It's terrible. Not as awful as it would have been if I used a lot of JS, but it is terrible, nevertheless. - -Here are the findings. Notice a pattern? - -{{< img-center "23-gsa-opportunities.png" "Opportunities">}} - -{{< img-center "23-gsa-diagnostics.png" "Diagnostics">}} - -Yeah. I embed YouTube videos, and even Google says it's a bad idea. What adds insult to injury is [Privacy Badger](https://privacybadger.org) screaming at me on my own page. So yup, I have joined the botnet and spied for Google. - -There are two solutions: pretend that YouTube doesn't exist or fix it. Let's fix it. The idea: use hyperlinks with self-hosted thumbnails. Sounds simple. And it is simple. - -Step 1 - get all Youtube embeds. This site is powered by [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/), and all three embeds are done via a `youtube` shortcode. So, on posts, I add a - -``` -<youtube "video_id" > -``` - -Let's use GNU to get all video ids! - -``` -grep -r "<youtube" content/. | grep -o "\".*\"" | tr -d '"' | cut -d " " -f1 -``` - -Easy. Just a few steps: - -1. Find all files with youtube shortcodes in the content directory -2. Extract all ids by getting the first quoted text -3. grep for all quotations -4. remove quotes -5. get first words - -Now, how do we get the thumbnail? Stack Overflow to [the rescue](https://stackoverflow.com/a/2068371). We can fetch different sizes of thumbs directly from youtube. Let's use wget - -``` -wget --output-document "assets/ytcovers/$id.jpg" "https://img.youtube.com/vi/$id/hqdefault.jpg" -``` - -And voila, we can use thumbs to create proper links. One thing that needs to be added is a play button. Internet and [ImageMagick](https://imagemagick.org) to the rescue! I found some random PNG overlay with a play button on the web, but I can't find the URL. It was free for personal use, so yeah. W can easily compose the button over the thumb: - -``` - magick convert "assets/ytcovers/$id.jpg" "assets/partials/play-button.png" -gravity center -geometry 150x150+5+5 -composite "assets/ytcovers/$id.jpg" -``` - -So, we: - -1. convert the previously fetched cover, -2. by adding a play button, -3. the button is placed in the center of the cover, -4. the button is to be resized to 150x150 and moved by 5px to the right and bottom. -5. Lastly, we tell ImageMagick to compose those two and overwrite the cover - -And with this simple trick, this site is no longer a part of the botnet, and as an added bonus, it is faster. - -An example from [TJ Ferreira](https://www.youtube.com/@MacSociety): - -{{<youtube "7G00r5dZIJY" "I Changed My Mind About Amiga - Amiga OS - Amiga One X5000 - the whole platform">}} |