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awpti's avatar
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"Sorry Because of its privacy settings, this video cannot be played here."

Title says it. Trying to watch the "Getters and Setters" video under Skills > PHP > Object-Oriented Bootcamp.

I just paid for a sub and now almost every video is throwing this notice, including the free ones that worked before.

Wat

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blueshift9's avatar

Something on your end, most likely a browser plugin. I'd check that out first.

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robrogers3's avatar

try alternative browser. you're using chrome right? I've had the problem b4, can't remember how I fixed it. But monkeying around fixed it.

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MikeHopley's avatar

I had this problem on my website, which also uses Vimeo for video hosting.

It's caused by a Vimeo feature called "domain level privacy", which allows you to restrict where your videos can be embedded.

To determine what site is hosting the embed, Vimeo checks the HTTP referer (sic) header. But browsers don't always send this header, especially if users enable "do not track" or other privacy features.

The referer header can be trivially spoofed, so "domain level privacy" is not a robust security measure anyway. I feel it's mostly something that punishes genuine customers while doing little to deter content theft. So I turned it off.

The workaround is to try disabling any privacy settings like "do not track", and any privacy-related add-ons, or just trying a different browser. Also check for aggressive antivirus meddling with your browser.

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BPPhotog's avatar

I had this issue with trying to view videos on the Blender 3D Architect site using Brave, and found that I had to change the cookie policy, located under "Shields" > "Cookie Control", to "Allow all Cookies".

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ravenshill's avatar

I had this issue: Was running privacy badger which was blocking some stuff from vimeo and disqus. disabled the blocking, all was well.

th3dom1t's avatar

@BPPHOTOG - Brave: yeah, had this issue too.. Allowing all cookies is what fixed it for me. Thanks BPPhotog

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itssaqlain's avatar

I also had this error, but I solve this error by disabling all the extensions and then restarting Chrome and enabling extensions again.

dave.morley.uk's avatar

For me, Bitdefender caused this to happen. You can easily disable it for the entire site to get the videos working again.

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