Blocked cookie problem with embedded YouTube videos

[BTB 500]

Whenever I try to use [YOUTUBE] tags to insert an embedded video I get a privacy report (IE 7 under XP Pro, fully patched) saying a cookie has been blocked ... and it doesn't work.

However under IE7 Properties, Privacy, Sites ... I've got "always allow" set for cookies from YouTube.com

I use another vBulletin Forum (don't know what version), and embedded YouTube videos work fine for me there. It's done differently though - you just enter a standard URL link, and the Forum recognises it as an embedded YouTube ... there are no special tags.

Any ideas??

Sample attempted YouTube link here:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwJx7-t68bA[/YOUTUBE]

Screen shots:

(I actually entered 'http://www.youtube.com' as the site, but that gets converted as above)

 

[Sp!ke]

[YOUTUBE]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bwJx7-t68bA&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bwJx7-t68bA&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>[/YOUTUBE]

Quote me to compare the difference between the way you embed youtube and the way I do.

 

[BTB 500]

Quote me to compare the difference between the way you embed youtube and the way I do.

Hmm. That works, despite getting a privacy report of 3 blocked cookies on the YouTube domain.

But in principle I should just be able to use the button provided, which puts the tags either side of the URL

Don't understand why I'm getting the cookie problem when I've explictly defined that domain as being allowed.

 

[Sp!ke]

I dont think so... you're supposed to use the link on the right of each Youtube page that says "embed video"

FWIW, IE7 sucks. I use Firefox mostly and IE6 elsewhere (which is stable and does pretty much what its told)

 

[BTB 500]

I'll try the YouTube embed link then - thanks.

I've had IE7 at home since it came out, no problems or issues I can think of (apart from this one ). We still have IE6 at work so I use both, I don't personally see any advantage in IE6.