Use Cases

These are the situations we had in mind when building Smart Local Youtube. They are our suggestions, not a limit. Your site will have its own needs, so adapt them as you see fit, and you may well find a use for it that we haven't thought of.

Articles with embedded YouTube videos

• Situation: your editors paste YouTube embeds into articles, and you need consent before those videos contact Google.
• How it can help:
  • Enable the plugin: standard and youtube-nocookie.com embeds are detected automatically
  • Choose Inline (replace video) so each video becomes a click-to-load placeholder in its own spot

Video sliders, galleries and page builders

• Situation: videos reach your pages through Smart Slider 3, the YouTube Gallery component, a page builder or oEmbed links.
• How it can help:
  • The built-in patterns cover these common extensions
  • For anything else, add a Custom Regex Pattern and check it with Debug Mode

A video-heavy site that should still look good before consent

• Situation: a grey "blocked" box in place of every video would hurt your design.
• How it can help:
  • Upload one custom poster, or map each video to its own poster with Per-video custom images
  • Add a red, dark or light play button so the card still reads as a video

Audience across regions

• Situation: you want consent from visitors with EU, EEA or UK browser languages, and other visitors handled differently.
• How it can help:
  • Turn on geo-detection, which reads the browser language and uses no external API
  • Choose what happens for other visitors: auto-agree, show the consent box, or skip the plugin

Consent dialog that matches your brand

• Situation: the dialog needs to fit your site's design and wording.
• How it can help:
  • Choose a theme or custom colors, including dark mode
  • Pick one of five positions and four animations
  • Set your own title, text and privacy policy link

Demo or preview site

• Situation: you want to show the banner, or preview its settings, without blocking real videos.
• How it can help:
  • Turn on demo mode: the banner always appears with a "Demo" badge and the visitor's choice is not saved