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Unable to gave an upvote to Q or A
It seems like all my attempts to get an upvote to Q or A for this post is failed
Why can't I play a YouTube video embedded on a website, in YouTube itself?
Initially I thought it is something on my side like poor internet connection but I was able to get upvotes for some other posts.
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It's a failed YouTube embed.
The site has a script to create YouTube embeds from youtube.com links, but fails on the link https://www.youtube.com/embed/?autohide=1&enablecastapi=0&html5=1&ps=blogger&widget_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fceritacinta407.blogspot.com%2F&enablejsapi=1&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.blogger.com&widgetid=1, throwing an error (which you can see in the browser console) that stops the entire site's script from running.
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The answer pointing to the YouTube embed is correct. I don't know why it fails in that way, but while we wait for someone to put some extra guardrails around YT embeds, I've edited the post to remove the link. I am hoping that bad YouTube links are relatively rare and that we won't see this problem often.
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You were probably not logged in.
You can sometimes get logged out when something changes on your machine, you get to the site from a different machine, etc. The view is very similar, and often it's not immediately obvious. I usually only notice when features are missing.
When this happens, take a look in in the top right corner. You will probably see an offer to log in, instead of your profile picture as usual.
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