Benefits
These are the benefits we see in the design of Smart Local Youtube. What you gain depends on how your site works, so treat this list as a starting point: adapt the plugin to your needs and you may find benefits of your own.
For site owners
- Videos wait for consent
- No YouTube iframe, player script or YouTube cookie reaches the browser until the visitor accepts
- If you turn on geo-detection, visitors outside your consent regions are auto-accepted by default; you can change this
- After a decline, videos stay blocked on later page loads
- The privacy-enhanced embed is covered too:
youtube-nocookie.comstill contacts Google, so it is blocked like a standard embed - No external consent service: consent handling runs on your own server
For visitors
- A clear choice: load YouTube or not, with an optional link to your privacy policy
- Context before consent: inline placeholders show where each video is, with your own poster image if you add one
- An accessible dialog: keyboard navigation, screen reader support and reduced motion
- A dialog that follows their preference: automatic dark mode detection
- No jump back to the top: the scroll position is kept when the page reloads after the choice
For site builders and developers
- No template editing: detection works on the finished page, whatever produced the video
- Quick to set up: three steps in the Quick Start
- Fits your design: five themes, custom colors, five positions and four animations
- An escape hatch: a Custom Regex Pattern and a Super-User-only debug view for unusual video widgets
- Modern Joomla architecture: built for Joomla 4.4, 5 and 6 with no deprecated APIs
- Translatable: 23 languages included, and any other can be added with standard
.inifiles - Safe to demonstrate: demo mode shows the banner without blocking videos
- Open licence: GNU General Public License v2 or later