1874833 - Stop rewriting YouTube Flash embeds in release

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, task)

Comment 1

[Gregory Pappas [:gregp]]

Simon, have you noticed any trends in the use counter data? Do you think usage of this feature is still too high to try unshipping?

Comment 2

[Simon Pieters [:zcorpan]]

For Firefox beta it seems stable at 0.002% between v118 and v120

https://mozilla.github.io/usecounters/#kind=page&group=YOUTUBEFLASHEMBED&channel=beta&version=118

Nightly is between 0.002% and 0.005% between v118 and v121

https://mozilla.github.io/usecounters/#kind=page&group=YOUTUBEFLASHEMBED&channel=nightly&version=118

Chrome's use counter is around 0.002% for December and January

https://chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/4740

I can check with Rick Byers about the status of anonymized URL collection.

Comment 3

[Gregory Pappas [:gregp]]

Analysis by Chromium engineers is showing that this mechanism probably can't be removed, so WONTFIX for now. Maybe in another 10 years we can try again.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2390#issuecomment-1986953335

Comment 4

[Gregory Pappas [:gregp]]

Attachment: Bug 1874833 - Re-enable YouTube flash embed rewriting in nightly and early beta

Use counters in Firefox and Chromium are showing that
this mechanism can't be disabled in release.

Let's re-enable in nightly and early beta.

See https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2390 for more info

Comment 5

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Bug 1874833 - Re-enable YouTube flash embed rewriting in nightly and early beta

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