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From: =?UTF-8?q?Micha=C5=82=20M=2E=20Sapka?= <michal@sapka.me>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2023 16:00:05 +0100
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+---
+title: "This Site No Longer Spies for Youtube"
+category: "blog"
+abstract: 
+date: 2023-02-02T14:58:42+01:00
+year: 
+draft: false
+tags: []
+---
+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](http://localhost:1313/2023/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?
+
+{{< imgproc "opportunities.png" Resize "500x" "Opportunities">}}
+
+{{< imgproc "diagnostics.png"  Resize "500x" "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.
+
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+title: "This Site No Longer Spies for Youtube"
+category: "blog"
+abstract: 
+date: 2023-02-02T14:58:42+01:00
+year: 
+draft: false
+tags: []
+---
+
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