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by _akhe 790 days ago
> A news site can embed their own content and summarize it.

But not a YouTube embed? Well we just disagree. That's what the embed is for.

Whether or not a video can be embedded is under the control of the creator in their YouTube dashboard, not this third-party site.

> There's no link to the channel, no credits from the video itself.

Not true at all, the creator is listed in a pretty big font size, and there is a literal YouTube embed that links to the video (and channel if you click the avatar). The creator gets the credit and ad revenue from the embed, the third-party site doesn't.

> This șite exists to take the work of others

Not true either, see the news site example, or any blog or tutorial site that references videos.
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mattl 790 days ago
To quote you:

Do you know how YouTube embeds work?

This site summarizes videos regardless of their status on YouTube. Don't support embeds? Tough luck, this site will summarize your work either way and there's just a little box telling you that you could watch the video on YouTube.

This site exists to take the work of others. If not, please provide a link to the YouTube channel made by the person behind stepify and all their videos.

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_akhe 790 days ago
> Don't support embeds? Tough luck, this site will summarize your work either way

Again wrong - the creator can disable embeds for any video on their YouTube dashboard.

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mattl 790 days ago
And this website ignores them. It will still summarize your video but won’t provide your profile icon or video title.
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_akhe 790 days ago
Have any proof for this claim?

How do you know it doesn't fail to publish a page when there's no video available?

^ Just curious where you got the info. Beyond that:

Being publicly available on YouTube would still mean it is allowed to be summarized by another person. This restriction you speak of has never existed in any copyright law.

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mattl 790 days ago
I tried it with a video I have set to not allow embedding.

Summary just like any other video but just the standard box when embedding is disabled.

You should try it for yourself with one of your own YouTube videos from your own channel.

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_akhe 790 days ago
Can you link it? I'm just curious how it presents it. I agree it should share the source even if they can't create the embed.
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