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@@ -52,11 +52,27 @@ dialog, main-frame navigation locked to YouTube's own domains), so watching a video doesn't leave the reader. **Fixed 2026-10-21, reported as "YouTube play is misconfigured":** the dialog -loaded the embed as its own top-level document, and YouTube answers that with -"Video player configuration error -- Error 153". An embed has to be embedded; -it now sits in an `<iframe>` on a minimal host page (`YouTubeLinks`). Measured -in the app's own WebView, before and after: top-level, 0 requests for the video -stream and the error on screen; framed, 8 stream requests and no error. +loaded the embed with no referrer, and YouTube answers that with "Video player +configuration error -- Error 153". It now sends a `Referer` header +(`YouTubeLinks`), which is enough on its own. Measured on an Android user +agent: no referrer, Error 153; `&origin=` in the query, Error 153; inside an +iframe, plays; with a `Referer` header, plays. + +The iframe was tried first and shipped briefly. It worked, but it meant hosting +the embed in a `loadDataWithBaseURL` document -- a synthetic origin with the +video in a cross-origin subframe of it -- and Peter then reported audio playing +over a black screen. Both of those are WebView constructs with a history of +rendering video oddly and neither was needed, so the referrer replaced them. + +**Not verified here: video actually appearing.** The emulator cannot render +video in a WebView at all -- it hard-crashes the whole AVD, twice, including on +a plain `<video>` element in an ordinary non-dialog WebView. Everything short of +display is confirmed on-device (no error, 854x480, readyState 4, playing), but +whether a picture reaches the screen can only be answered on real hardware. If +it is still black, the question that splits the remaining causes is whether +YouTube's own title and scrubber are visible in the black area: visible means +only the video texture is missing, absent means the whole player is not +compositing. **Added at the same time:** a long-press on the thumbnail opens the video in the YouTube app instead of the link-actions menu. A tap already plays it in the |